Started in 1986, by gay rights activist Cleve Jones, by 2016, the quilt (officially titled the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt) measured 1.3 million square feet and weighed an estimated 54 tons.
A number of cities had "ugly laws" on the books prohibiting those deemed "diseased, maimed, *******ed or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting" from being seen in public. Most eventually repealed these laws, though Chicago was the last, repealing in 1974.
That includes all of the country's rivers and lakes, considering the loch is 23 miles long and about a mile wide…and deep enough for a massive sea creature.
Trivia Question: Before the Beatles were formed, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison were originally members of which group?
Answer: The Quarrymen
When visiting the recently opened theme park in 1957, President Harry S. Truman, a staunch Democrat, did not want to be photographed sitting on an elephant, the symbol for the rival Republican party, so he refused to board the flying elephant ride. It may also have just been that he was nervous about heights.