31 Really Intriguing Random Facts About Literally Everything | Random List #59

120 years ago the most pressing environmental threat was cities being buried in 9 feet of horse manure in 50 years.

27. High heels on men's shoes were once considered virile and masculine.

28. When Franklin D. Roosevelt died, Eleanor Roosevelt told Harry Truman that the president was dead. When he asked if there was anything he could do for her, she replied, “Is there anything we can do for you? For you are the one in trouble now.”

29. Stanley Kubrick appointed French Director Bertrand Tavernier as his publicist in France and he was asking him regularly about strange stuff like types of lamps in theaters, Tavernier resigned after 3 months and told him: As a film-maker, you are a genius but as an employer, you are an imbecile.

30. Because a patch of clovers usually contains around 10,000 plants in 13 square feet, you only have to search an area around the size of an office desk to find a four-leaf clover.

When a rookie hits his first home run in Major League Baseball, it's tradition for his teammates to ignore him and give him the silent treatment instead of congratulating him.