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1. 6 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   One of Tyler’s grandchildren died four years ago. At this time, Tyler has one living grandchild.

2. 6 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   Tyler was born in 1790 and has a grandson who is still living.

   Tyler was the 10th POTUS. He took office in 1841, after William Henry Harrison (“Old Tippecanoe”) died about 1 month after being inaugurated. Tyler’s first wife died in 1842, aged 51. They had eight children. He remarried in 1844. Tyler and his 2nd wife had 7 children.

   Lyon Gardiner Tyler, born in 1853, is a son of John Tyler and his second wife. Lyon Tyler and his first wife had 3 children. After she died, Lyon Tyler remarried. He remarried, and fathered 3 more children. Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr. was born in 1925, and died in 2020. Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928, and is still alive.

3. 6 months ago on Doonesbury

   Did Mike / Kim / Alex, a.k.a. MyVulture.com, compete with Duke for the assets of that company?

4. 6 months ago on Luann Againn

   A big box store here has machines that sell lottery tickets. It says something like “Must be 18 to play”. But, there is not anything to prevent someone under 18 from using it, except, perhaps, store employees. I tried it a few times. (I am over 18.) In a grocery store, I saw a similar machine. But, the slot to insert my money wasn’t working. I told a store employee that, and she the machine has to scan my ID.

5. 6 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   I saw a map of Orange County, CA. I’m not sure when the map was printed, but I’m guessing the 1970s. A remote area had street names like “Thisa Way”, “Thata Way”, “Outa Way”, “Upa Way”, “Downa Way” …

6. 6 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not
   The air inside potato chip bags is to protect the chips. Without it, there would be many more broken or crushed chips per bag.The air inside potato chips is actually nitrogen. Without oxygen, the chips will stay fresh longer before the bag is opened.Laura Scudder pioneered selling potato chips in bags.
7. 6 months ago on Luann

   And how did it become so common that so many people think it is an actual rule?

8. 6 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   Decades ago, 60 Minutes had a story about a kid who was diagnosed as being mentally challenged. Parents didn’t accept that diagnosis. They took the kid to different doctors, who agreed with the diagnosis. Finally, they found a doctor who discovered the actual problem: The child’s gut microbiome was causing auto-brewery syndrome! The kid wasn’t mentally challenged. The kid was drunk.

9. 6 months ago on Luann

   I won’t play Monopoly in which two of the players are married to each other. They help each other instead of competing. It’s like playing with an opponent who starts with twice the cash, and gets two turns per round.

10. 6 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

    Yup. The odor we associate with swimming pools isn’t caused by the pool chemicals alone. It’s from chemicals formed by the reaction of urine with pool chemicals.