Quotes from Karl Shaw

Least Convincing Denial over Eating One's Crew

Demodox folliculorum has eight stumpy legs and a tail, is about a third of millimeter long, and loves nothing more than to recline in the warm, oily pits of your hair follicles. Most adults have this mite, usually on the head and especially in eyelashes, and often in nipples.

The most popular cure for leprosy in the Middle Ages was bathing in the blood of a dog. If a dog wasn't available, a two-year-old child's blood would do.

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1925: in Indiana, local authorities arrest a chimpanzee for smoking a cigarette in public. The chimp is found guilty and fined five dollars.