Did You Know…And Furthermore

  Old Spice, the scent our fathers wore, was first launched on June 17, 1939 as Early American Old Spice, bought out by Proctor and Gamble in 1990, for 50 million dollars.

  I don’t know about you, but at the first whiff, smell Dad.

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) was allergic to horses even though from the photo, they liked him, ironic since his wife Jacqueline (1929-1994) who kept them at their farm in Peapack, New Jersey rode to the hounds.  

Designer Coco Chanel (1883-1971) was addicted to opium, a truth she never denied, at times casually injecting herself beneath her skirt, foregoing the local fumerie, the French term for opium den.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965), like Jada Pinkett Smith (1971-   along with director Mike Nichols (1931-2014), suffered from Alopecia, a disease when the immune system attacks hair follicles, causing it to fall out.

  Nichols always wore a topnotch wig just family and close friends knew about, while Winston had hair on his head, but none on his body.

  According to White House staff, First Lady Nancy Reagan (1921-2016) was a first class bitch, while Barbara Bush (1925-2018), her successor, an absolute doll.

  The expression, you’ll eat your words, comes from the Bible...Jeremiah 15:16: Thy words were found and I did eat them; and thy words were unto me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart. 

Talk about stealing a guy’s material. 

Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926), Abe’s eldest, as U.S. Grant’s personal aide-de-camp, witnessed Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, was at his father’s bedside when he breathed his last, present when both Presidents, James Garfield and William McKinley were assassinated, and watched Theodore Roosevelt lay the cornerstone for the Lincoln Memorial.

Dying at 82, 22 when his father died, outliving him by 61 years, he’s the only Lincoln buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

How’s that for history personified?

    SB