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Worst Dog Breeding

Many breeds of dogs are the result of human intervention. By selective breeding, the dogs have been made cuter. Very little dogs and pug-nosed dogs may have been bred too far into their specialty. The problem is with their teeth. It seems that their teeth have not decreased in size as much as their mouths, and when these teeth grow in, they come in all crooked. These crooked teeth trap food particles and eventually cause extreme decay and periodontal disease.

You can actually brush a dog’s teeth, and should, to help spare them the pain of mouth problems. To do it, start when the dog is quite young, and put your finger in their mouths and rub their teeth while playing with them. They will get used to this, and you can eventually substitute a toothbrush for your fingers. Don’t use human toothpaste, which is designed to be spit out. Use a small amount of baking soda.

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Worst Thing About Pit Bulls

Pit Bulls, the breed of dogs which are mostly lovey, even-tempered pets, are sometimes bred to be vicious. Because of these rare badly-trained dogs, all pit bulls may be outlawed in England, meaning all of them in that country could be sentenced to death. There are 5,256,000 pitbulls in the United States, and approximately 9 million in England.

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“Pit Bull” Isn’t Actually a Single Breed
The term “pit bull” is an umbrella label used to describe several distinct, distinctively built breeds descending from bulldogs and terriers. This category primarily includes the American Pit Bull Terrier, the American Staffordshire Terrier, the Staffordshire Bull Terrier, and the American Bully.
They Once Earned the Title of “Nanny Dogs”
In the early 20th century, pit bulls were widely celebrated in popular culture for their gentle, protective nature around children. Their patience and affection earned them a reputation as family guardians, leading to the affectionate nickname “Nanny Dog.”
They Were America’s Military & Cultural Mascots
During World War I and World War II, pit bulls represented American bravery, loyalty, and determination on recruitment posters and wartime campaigns. Their likeness was regularly used to embody national strength and patriotic duty.
Sergeant Stubby Was a Highly Decorated WWI War Hero
Sergeant Stubby, a pit bull mix, served on the Western Front during World War I. He survived being wounded, alerted troops to incoming mustard gas attacks, located injured soldiers in no-man’s-land, and caught a enemy spy, earning official promotion to Sergeant and national fame.
The “Locking Jaw” Myth Is Completely False
A persistent urban legend claims pit bulls possess a special physical locking mechanism in their jaws. Studies by veterinary anatomists have proven that their jaw structure is identical to that of any other dog breed; they simply possess strong jaw muscles, as do many large working dogs.
They Excel in Temperament Testing
In evaluations conducted by the American Temperament Test Society (ATTS), pit bull breeds consistently score higher than many popular family breeds, including Golden Retrievers and Chihuahuas. American Pit Bull Terriers frequently achieve pass rates near 87%.
A Pit Bull Was One of Early Hollywood’s Biggest Stars
Petey the Pup from the famous 1920s and 30s short comedy series Our Gang (later known as The Little Rascals) was an American Pit Bull Terrier named Pal the Wonder Dog, famous for the natural ring marking around his eye.
They Were the First Dog to Cross America by Automobile
In 1903, a pit bull named Bud accompanied Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker on the first successful transcontinental trip across the United States in a motor car. Bud wore custom goggles to protect his eyes from dust along the unpaved roads.
They Don’t Have a Naturally Aggressive Disposition Toward Humans
Historically bred to work closely alongside human handlers, pit bulls were selectively bred to be exceptionally friendly and submissive toward people, making human aggression an unnatural trait in properly socialized dogs of the breed line.
They Excel as Search and Rescue & Therapy Dogs
Due to their high athletic drive, intelligence, resilience, and affection for humans, many pit bulls excel as working dogs in law enforcement detection, search-and-rescue teams, and certified hospital therapy programs.

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Worst Thing to do with Clocks

Daylight Savings Time, an American phenomenon has been debated for years. Springing ahead can be dangerous. The number of people who suffer strokes during the two days following moving the clock ahead is eight percent higher.

Daylight Saving Time (DST) is practiced in dozens of countries around the world, yet it remains one of the most debated and misunderstood seasonal traditions. Here are 10 fascinating facts about its history, impact, and origins.

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Benjamin Franklin Did Not Invent It
While Benjamin Franklin wrote a satirical 1784 essay suggesting Parisians wake up earlier to save on candle wax—even proposing firing cannons at dawn—he never suggested changing the clock. The modern idea was actually conceived in 1895 by George Hudson, a New Zealand entomologist who wanted extra evening sunlight after work to collect bugs.
It Was First Adopted to Save Coal During WWI
The German Empire was the first nation to officially adopt Daylight Saving Time on April 30, 1916, as a wartime measure to conserve coal. The United Kingdom and other European nations followed weeks later, and the United States introduced its own version in 1918.
Farmers Are Not Fans
A widespread myth claims DST was created to help farmers, but agricultural workers were actually its fiercest opponents. Disrupted animal schedules—like cows refusing to produce milk an hour earlier—and misaligned supply chains led farmers to lobby heavily against it. In the US, farmers led the push to repeal DST after WWI.
It Costs More Energy Than It Saves in Some Places
While created for energy conservation, modern studies show DST has a negligible effect on energy usage and can even increase it. A famous 2006 study in Indiana found that while DST reduced lighting demand, it increased home air conditioning and heating use, raising total electricity bills across the state by $9 million annually.
It Triggers Measurable Health Risks
The spring shift forward causes a collective loss of one hour of sleep, which leads to notable spikes in public health issues. Epidemiological studies show a ~24% increase in heart attack risk on the Monday immediately following the spring shift, alongside spikes in workplace injuries, fatal traffic accidents, and miscarriages among IVF patients.
Not All of the United States Observes It
In the US, Hawaii and most of Arizona do not observe DST (Arizona opted out in 1968 due to its extreme summer heat, as residents preferred earlier nightfall). US territories—including Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands—also do not observe DST.
The US Tried Year-Round DST in 1974 (and Hated It)
During the 1973 OPEC oil embargo, President Richard Nixon signed a bill instituting year-round DST starting in January 1974. Public support plummeted when winter arrived, as children were forced to commute to school in total darkness, leading to high-profile traffic accidents. Congress repealed the law just eight months later.
A Two-Minute Window Helped a Draft-Dodger
During the Vietnam War, an American born on November 2, 1963, at 1:10 AM local time used DST to dodge the draft. His home state was undergoing the standard fall clock shift on that date. When his birth time occurred, the clock turned back to 1:00 AM, making his official standard time 12:10 AM—which shifted his birthdate back to November 1 and altered his draft lottery number.
It Drives Retail and Commerce Politics
The golf, outdoor recreation, and candy industries have historically been major lobbyists for extended DST. Extra daylight in the evening encourages consumers to shop, play golf, and spend money outside. In 1986, the US extended DST by a month largely through lobbying efforts by golf and barbecue equipment manufacturers.
A Chaos-Causing Period Known as “Chaos Time”
Before the US Uniform Time Act of 1966, states, towns, and cities could choose whether or not to observe DST and when to start it. This created total logistical chaos; a 35-mile bus ride between Steubenville, Ohio, and Moundsville, West Virginia, passed through seven different time changes in less than an hour.

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Worst Imposter

Ferdinand Waldo Demara, Jr., a high-school dropout, posed as a monk, a professor of psychology, a cancer researcher, a penal officer, a teacher, and a surgeon, all without the proper education or certification. As a surgeon he successfully performed amputations and even thoracic surgery.

Ferdinand was portrayed by Tony Curtis in the 1961 movie, “The Great Imposter.”

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Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., famously known as “The Great Impostor,” was one of history’s most prolific and successful con men. Armed with an extraordinary memory and supreme confidence, he took on dozens of high-level professions without credentials.

He Performed Successful Surgeries at Sea with Zero Medical Training
During the Korean War, Demara posed as Dr. Joseph Cyr, a trauma surgeon aboard the Royal Canadian Navy destroyer HMCS Cayuga. When wounded soldiers were brought aboard, Demara ducked into his cabin, speed-read a medical textbook on the required procedures, and performed multiple surgeries—including extracting a bullet lodged near a patient’s heart and amputating a foot. Every single one of his patients survived.
His Heroic Fame Was His Own Undoing
Demara’s flawless surgical work on the Cayuga was so impressive that it attracted news coverage. The real Dr. Joseph Cyr’s mother read a newspaper account of her son’s “heroic” actions aboard a navy vessel in Korea and knew something was wrong, as her actual son was practicing medicine in New Brunswick, exposing the fraud.
He Served as the Dean of Philosophy at a College
Posing as “Dr. Robert Linton French,” a religiously oriented psychologist, Demara landed a position at Gannon College in Erie, Pennsylvania. He wasn’t just a lecturer; he was made Dean of the School of Philosophy and taught courses in general, industrial, and abnormal psychology—even authoring a booklet titled How to Bring Up Your Child.
He Possessed a Photographic Memory
Demara lacked formal higher education, having run away from home as a teenager, but he possessed an extraordinarily high IQ and a photographic memory. This allowed him to absorb textbooks rapidly, memorize technical jargon, and pass himself off as an authority on nearly any subject overnight.
He Faked His Own Suicide to Escape the Military
After going AWOL from the U.S. Army during World War II, Demara joined the U.S. Navy under a stolen name. When he failed to get the naval assignment he wanted, he staged his own suicide by leaving his clothes and a suicide note on a beach before slipping away under another new identity.
He Ran a Maximum-Security Prison Section
Demara assumed the identity of Dr. Ben W. Jones and secured a position as an assistant warden at a maximum-security prison in Texas. He successfully instituted prison reform policies and gained the trust of inmates and guards alike before a prisoner recognized his face from a news article and turned him in.
He Co-Founded a Catholic College
Demara spent significant time trying to become a monk, joining various religious orders throughout his life. Under the alias Brother John Payne, he helped found LaMennais College (now Walsh University) in Alfred, Maine, where he served as a chancellor.
He Was Played by Tony Curtis in a Hollywood Film
His exploits inspired a best-selling 1959 biography, The Great Impostor by Robert Crichton, which was adapted into a 1961 feature film starring Tony Curtis. Demara was also cast in a small role as a hospital surgeon in the 1960 horror film The Hypnotic Eye, where ironically, observers noted he was terrible at scripted acting.
He Claimed His Primary Motive Was “Pure Rascality”
Unlike most con artists, Demara rarely stole money or sought great personal wealth. He was primarily motivated by prestige, the challenge of slipping into high-status roles, and the opportunity to do good. When asked about his motivation, he famously cited “Rascality, pure rascality”.
He Ended His Life as a Legitimate Hospital Chaplain
In his later years, after his fame made it impossible to adopt new fake personas, Demara went back to serving others legitimately under his real name. He became an ordained minister and worked as a hospital chaplain in Anaheim, California, until his death in 1982.

Perhaps more famous was Frank Abagnale Jr., the real person portrayed in the move “Catch Me If You Can,” Starring Leonardo DiCaprio

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Most Repulsive Bird

The turkey vulture is a bird that repels threatening animals in a unique way. The bird throws up in the enemy’s face. Its primary defense mechanism is projectile vomiting.

Why It Works

Foul Odor & Acid: Because turkey vultures feed on carrion (decaying meat), their stomach contents smell exceptionally foul. Additionally, their stomach acid is extremely strong and corrosive—enough to burn the eyes and face of an attacking predator.

Distance: They can shoot their vomit up to 10 feet (3 meters) away, aiming directly at the aggressor.

Escape Weight: Vomiting serves a dual purpose. Clearing their heavy stomach allows the vulture to lighten its weight quickly so it can take off into the air and escape faster.

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Worst Superstitions

There are some old superstitions that were quite seriously heeded in their time. Among them: Never eat a dinner with 13 people seated at the table. Never cut off both ends of a loaf of bread – because the Devil will jump from the bread and ‘fly all over the house.’

Other old superstitions: Do not wear red and green at the same time.

People with red hair bring about unlucky circumstances.

Always pick up a comb from a table with its teeth facing away from your body.

Never watch a child sleep or you will be risking the death of that child.

If you are a male, and you wish to be irresistible to females, tie the udder of a hyena around your left arm. So says a custom from ancient Greece.

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Most Obnoxious Invention

One of Leonardo da Vinci’s less known but very effective inventions was a weapon – stink bombs mounted on arrows.

In his notebooks, Leonardo da Vinci conceptualized early forms of chemical and psychological warfare, including foul-smelling smoke weapons designed to disorient and incapacitate enemies.

The Design: Leonardo sketched and described small containers packed with sulfur, pitch, and other pungent, suffocating compounds affixed to the heads of arrows or thrown as projectiles. When launched and shattered upon impact, they released an overpowering, foul stench and choking smoke.

The Purpose: The goal was not necessarily to kill, but to cause panic, force enemy soldiers to abandon their positions, or cause asphyxiation in enclosed spaces (like fortifications or ship decks) without having to breach heavy armor directly.

While it is uncertain how widely these stink-bomb arrows were ever deployed in actual battles, the schematics remain some of the earliest documented precursors to modern crowd-control malodorants and non-lethal chemical weapons.

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Worst Failing in Business

One out of every four women fail in business. Four of every five men fail in business.

Here are 10 weird, counterintuitive, and unexpected facts about the history and mechanics of business:

Nintendo was founded as a playing card company in 1889. Long before video games, Nintendo produced hand-crafted Hanafuda cards in Kyoto. Over the next century, the company experimented with several unusual business ventures—including a taxi company, a short-stay hotel chain, a instant rice company, and vacuum cleaners—before finding massive success in electronic toys and video games.

The “100-Year-Old Company” capital of the world is Japan. Japan is home to over 33,000 shinise—businesses that have been operating continuously for more than 100 years. This includes Kongo Gumi, a construction firm founded in 578 AD that built Buddhist temples for over 1,400 years before becoming a subsidiary in 2006.

FedEx was saved from bankruptcy by a lucky night in Las Vegas. In 1973, Federal Express was down to its last $5,000 and facing complete collapse because it couldn’t afford jet fuel. Founder Frederick Smith took the remaining cash to Las Vegas, played blackjack, and turned it into $27,000. That covered fuel for another week, giving him just enough time to raise $11 million in equity funding.

Wrigley started as a soap business. William Wrigley Jr. originally moved to Chicago in 1891 to sell soap. To incentivize merchants, he offered free baking powder with every soap order. When the baking powder proved more popular than the soap, he switched to selling baking powder and offered free chewing gum with every can. Once again, the freebie outperformed the product, leading him to launch Wrigley’s Spearmint.

Lamborghini exists purely out of spite. Ferruccio Lamborghini was a wealthy tractor manufacturer who owned a Ferrari. Frustrated by constant clutch troubles, he brought feedback directly to Enzo Ferrari. Ferrari dismissed him, saying, “The problem is not with the car, but with the driver,” and told him to stick to tractors. Insulted, Lamborghini vowed to build a better sports car and launched his own automaking company in 1963.

The inventor of the friction match refused to patent it. English chemist John Walker invented the friction match in 1826 by accident while scraping a mixing stick coated with chemicals across his hearth. Believing the invention was too beneficial to humanity to monopolize, he refused to patent it. As a result, others patented similar designs (like “Lucifers”), missing out on millions in royalties while democratizing fire-starting worldwide.

McDonald’s is primarily a real estate enterprise, not a restaurant operator. While famous for burgers, McDonald’s corporate income relies heavily on real estate holdings. McDonald’s Corporation buys the land and buildings for its locations, then leases them back to franchisees—often charging a markup on rent alongside sales royalties. Former CFO Harry J. Sonneborn famously noted, “We are technically not in the food business. We are in the real estate business.”

Puma and Adidas were founded by feuding brothers. Adolf and Rudolf Dassler ran a successful shoe company together in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. A bitter personal and political rift during World War II split the brothers permanently. In 1948, Adolf founded Adidas (from “Adi” “Dassler”), and Rudolf founded Puma. The rivalry divided their home town of Herzogenaurach for decades, down to which local businesses citizens visited depending on their footwear.

The most expensive mistake in publishing history was a typo in a phone book. In 1988, Yellow Pages printed an advertisement for a luxury travel agency named Exotic Travels, but accidentally mistyped the name as “Erotic Travels.” The error ruined the agency’s professional reputation and overwhelmed their phones with inappropriate inquiries. Yellow Pages ended up paying a court settlement of over $18 million.

Bubble wrap was originally invented to be textured 3D wallpaper. In 1957, engineers Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes sealed two shower curtains together, trapping air bubbles inside, in an attempt to create a trendy textured wall covering. When that failed, they tried marketing it as greenhouse insulation. It wasn’t until 1960 that Sealed Air Corporation realized its true potential as protective packaging, famously pitching it to IBM to ship their new computers.

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Loudest Science Experiments

For centuries, people observed that heavy rains often followed major military battles, a phenomenon noted as early as Plutarch in ancient Rome and seen again during the Napoleonic Wars and the American Civil War.

In 1871, a civil engineer and Civil War veteran named Edward Powers published War and the Weather, popularizing the Concussion Theory. He argued that the violent shockwaves and noise of artillery fire “shook” moisture out of clouds or forced opposing air currents to collide.

This led to real-world, government-funded experiments:

The 1891 “Boom” Expeditions: In 1890, the U.S. Congress appropriated funds for the Department of Agriculture to test the theory. Patent attorney Robert St. George Dyrenforth took a team to drought-stricken Texas.

Explosive Arsenal: Dyrenforth’s team attacked the sky using mortars, cannons, tons of dynamite, electrified kites, and oxy-hydrogen balloons detonated aloft.

The Result: The tests were deafening and completely ineffective. While occasional sprinkles fell days later—usually during Texas’s normal rainy season—the scientific consensus deemed it a total failure. Press coverage mocked Dyrenforth, dubbing him General “Dry-Henceforth.”

Why Does Rain Actually Follow Battles?

The modern understanding relies on two main factors:

Particulate Nucleation (The Smoke Effect): Heavy artillery and burning black powder release vast amounts of smoke, soot, and ash particles (condensation nuclei) into the atmosphere. Water vapor condenses around these particles, forming droplets that turn into clouds and rain. Modern cloud-seeding (using silver iodide) relies on a refined version of this principle.

Selection Bias & Military Strategy: Historically, commanders rarely initiated major tactical engagements during active downpours due to mud, poor visibility, and damp gunpowder. Battles were fought during dry spells ahead of moving weather fronts; rain naturally arrived shortly afterward regardless of artillery.

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Worst Load of Rotten Fruit

Because Jared lived on the Big Island of Hawaii, he had few options for earning a living.

He found an orchard that would sell him a pickup truck full of too-ripe papayas for $25. He figured most of these were still quite edible, and so he could sell them to tourists near the hotels.

He bought a load, made a sign and parked his truck. The first day, he made $100 or so, and he was delighted with his new business idea.

The second day, all the papayas were becoming too ripe and he only made $50.

The third day, it was obvious he couldn’t sell any more papayas, even though his truck was still almost entirely full.

He tried to bury them in his yard, but after an hour of digging, he had only a small hole. He took them to the dump, but they were not accepting truckloads of produce. They rotted in the back of his truck.

Because of the stench, the truck was no longer drivable. I don’t know how the story ended, but I’m sure Jared’s truck was never completely clean and stink-free again.

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