{"id":3770,"date":"2022-04-26T06:28:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T06:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crestnetwork.com\/?p=3770"},"modified":"2022-05-19T22:10:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T22:10:38","slug":"truth-is-stranger-than-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crestnetwork.com\/truth-is-stranger-than-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth is Stranger Than Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The United States Post Office began its Parcel Post service for fourth-class mail on January 1, 1913. Almost anything could be mailed parcel post, including day-old chicks, baby alligators, and honeybees. Only items that could be dangerous to handle could not be sent that way. It wasn\u2019t long before parents found an interesting loophole. Later the same month, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Beauge of Glen Este, Ohio, sent their young son via Rural Free Delivery one mile to his grandmother\u2019s house. They paid 15\u00a2 for the stamps and insured their son for $50. Later that month, a family in Pine Hollow, Pennsylvania mailed their daughter to relatives in Clay Hollow at a cost of 45\u00a2.On February 19, 1914, five-year-old May Pierstorff\u2019s parents in Grangeville, Idaho, sent their daughter to visit her grandparents 73 miles away. They placed 53\u00a2 in stamps on her coat and handed her over to the postal worker on the railway mail train, who also happened to be a relative. Despite her safe delivery to her grandmother\u2019s doorstep, once Postmaster General Albert S. Burleson heard her story, he officially prohibited postal workers from accepting humans to be mailed. Nevertheless, a woman mailed her six-year-old daughter 720 miles from Florida to Virginia the following year for 15\u00a2. The last known instance of a child being mailed came in August 1915, when three-year-old Maud Smith was mailed from her grandparents to her sick mother in Kentucky.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona. The Spanish city thought the design<\/p>\n\n\n\n
would be an eyesore, so Gustave Eiffel pitched it to Paris instead, as a temporary landmark<\/p>\n\n\n\n
during its 1889 International Exposition. French critics didn\u2019t like it much either though.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Scotland is famous for its love for and long history of myths and legends. It should come as no surprise that a fabled creature\u2014the unicorn\u2014 is Scotland\u2019s national animal. While the animal is mythological, the ideals it represents are what make it a perfect, because like this proud beast, Scots would fight to remain unconquered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Antarctica is the world\u2019s largest desert. It covers the Antarctica continent\u2014roughly 5.5 million square miles. The Sahara Desert covers roughly 3.6 million square miles, and, surprisingly, only \u00bc of the Sahara Desert is sandy; the rest is covered in gravel, mountain ranges and oases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Until 2015, it was illegal to dance in Japan after midnight based on a law introduced in 1948 to crack down on dance halls that acted as fronts for illicit activities. It was only revoked in 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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In England, pigeon poop is the property of the Crown. Because pigeon poop could be used to make gunpowder, King George I declared all pigeon poop to be property of the Crown in the 18th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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