False Fun Facts

Monday, September 24, 2012

Baseball manager Bill Veeck once promoted a double-header by hiring a pair of conjoined twins to umpire the games.

Chicago is the most populous city in Illinois.

More accidental deaths occur on April Fools' Day than on any other day of the year.

The term "daylight robbery" was coined in 1918 to protest the newly-instituted Daylight Saving Time.

Buddy Holly released his hit song, "That'll Be the Day" on the same day as his fatal plane crash.

Michael Jordan made his high school baseball team as a freshman.

At the 1954 Summer Olympics at Melbourne, track events were run clockwise.