Facts, Jokes, and Fun
If you love trivia, and better yet, love to astound your friends with obscure facts and strange but true stories, you’ll love visiting Facts Jokes N Fun. Here, you’ll find some of the oddest, most trivial bits of knowledge that we could unearth, blow the dust from, and offer up for your entertainment.
It’s a doggone good site to dig up a good fact, or bone of contention to argue over, like the fate of these famous dogs.
- "They will also serve who stand and wait. Or in this case lay and wait…and wait...and wait. Grey Friars Bobby, a Skye Terrier, followed his master to the grave, beside Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotland and there laid for the next 14 years, being fed by those living nearby, his license paid by the Provost Marshall. On his death in 1872, a bronze statue was erected to his memory, and he was buried within the churchyard.
- It was Checkers last move. From the White House to anonymity in a pet graveyard in Wantagh, New York, 1964. The dog that saved Richard Nixon's career in 1952 (and we're supposed to thank him?) was buried in the Long Island cemetery for the sake of convenience. Nobody from the former First Family has ever visited.
- He was buried way down on the Lad-der of precedence. The collie who inspired Albert Payson Terhune's children’s books, about “Lad”, died in 1918 and was buried on the author's estate, in his favorite resting spot, one described by Terhune himself in his books. The gravesite is at the bottom of a slope, on the edge of Pompton Lake, New Jersey, where water and bog often obscure the small marker. Terhune's other dogs are buried further up.
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