Author: 186times14

In 2000, a melted ice cream stain fell outside a Coke vending machine in Houston, Texas. When people began to look at the mysterious stain they saw it looked like the Virgin Mary. Crowds gathered and people were “praying, taking a version of communion, and supplicating themselves” to the ice cream.

In 1973, Texas State Rep. Jim Kaster filed a bill that, if passed, would force criminals to tell their victims 24 hours before committing the crime that they were doing it. Sadly, the bill was defeated.

In 1978, Random House recalled a cookbook after it said to leave a can of condensed milk in a crockpot for 4 hours in a caramel slices recipe. It forgot to add water to the recipe. Therefore if someone used that recipe the crockpot lid would explode.

In 1975, a district court judge in New York named William Perry hated his coffee that he got from a food truck that he had the vendor handcuffed and brought to his halls. He had to pay $141,000 in damages to the vendor

Between 1933 and 1943, Wilma Williams of Siler City, North Carolina attended 265 schools (one new school every two weeks) and had more than 500 teachers.

Modern TV remotes only came around in the 1970s. Before that, Mrs. F.M. Cooper of Tennessee placed a TV with a different channel in each room in 1957. When she wanted to see a different channel, she hopped to a different room.