Speaking of service...in 1736, Benjamin Franklin founded the Union Fire Company, the first fire company in Philadelphia, completely run and operated by volunteers. To be part of this groundbreaking endeavor you had to agree to furnish your own buckets for carrying water.
Humans shed about 500,000 skin cells every minute. That adds up to shedding 40 pounds of skin cells during your lifetime. Maybe not a weight-loss strategy but...
Most power outages are caused by squirrels. The American Public Power Association even developed a data tracker called "The Squirrel Index" that analyzes