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- The land that Arlington National Cemetery resides on was owned by Robert E. Lee before the government confiscated it to build a cemetery upon. Whether it was an intentional "Fuck you, man" or not, I forget.
- The term "Hookers" comes from General Joseph Hooker, a Union commander in the civil war, who enjoyed the company of women of ill-repute.
- Lyndon Johnson, once bored and angry in a cabinet meeting, whipped out his member and asked his astounded cabinet if they thought "Mao had one as big as this?"
- There's a heartwrenching story behind the trumpet ditty "Taps," played at Military Funerals, about a son and a father fighting on opposite sides of the civil war, and the father shoots the son, who had been studying music, and wrote this little thing right before he died. This is bullshit. It was written by a Union commander named Dan Butterfield, who liked to compose little pieces of music in his spare time.
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Words of Wisdom:
If you could really get to know someone and know that they weren't lying to you, then you would know the world was real. Because you could agree on things, you could compare notes. That must be why people get married or make Art. So they'll be able to really know something and not go insane.
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