Oh, the Irony….
1. In almost every metropolitan city, Martin Luther King Jr. Street is in the most impoverished, crime-ridden area of the city. The man who fought fervently for civil liberties and equality, has had his dream destroyed by gentrification.
2. Larry Flynt Jr., the founder and owner of Hustler magazine, one of the raunchiest and most popular pornographic magazines in the world, is paralyzed from the waist down. The man who owns Hustler can not “enjoy” his own magazine.
3. Bill Gates, the founder and majority owner of Microsoft, worth an estimated $400,000,000,000, will only endow his son $1,000,000. He is giving his only heir .25% of his wealth and giving the rest to charity.
4. For more than 2 years, the name of Joel Olsteen, one of Christianity’s and the world’s biggest televangelists, was the 3 times the size of the name of the actual mega-church, Lakewood, on the building.
5. Before he passed away, Superman spent the last ten years of his life as a quadriplegic. Christopher Reeve, the actor who played Superman, injured his spine while horseback riding. The man who was faster than a speeding bullet, stronger than a locomotive, and able to leap over tall buildings in a single bound, could not move his entire body.
6. Too many vitamins can kill you. Vitamins help our bodies synthesize proteins. In small doses, they benefit us greatly. In excessive doses they become toxic.
7. Allegedly, you can be too smart to be a police officer. The idea is that to work the beat, you have to be within a certain range of intelligence. If you are too bright then the monotony of daily police work would be too boring and corruption could occur.