Comments on: The First Time News Was Fit To Print, IX http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/8354 Feel Smart Again Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:01:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: cms http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/8354/comment-page-1#comment-28855 cms Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:44:31 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/8354#comment-28855 This is a great ongoing service! Some of them are really surprising, like War on Terror. I thought that was one of GW's many gifts to us. How about: condominium global warming john f. kennedy andy warhol mega-church bobby knight This is a great ongoing service! Some of them are really surprising, like War on Terror. I thought that was one of GW’s many gifts to us.

How about:

condominium

global warming

john f. kennedy

andy warhol

mega-church

bobby knight

]]> By: Vince http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/8354/comment-page-1#comment-28843 Vince Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:29:14 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/8354#comment-28843 And someday maybe I'll make this list for my appearance on June 9, 2002. And someday maybe I’ll make this list for my appearance on June 9, 2002.

]]> By: gmsc http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/8354/comment-page-1#comment-27183 gmsc Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:01:36 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/8354#comment-27183 Many people don't realize that Edward Thorp, the mathematician who helped develop and popularize card counting in blackjack, was also the inventor of the concept of the hedge fund. Many people don’t realize that Edward Thorp, the mathematician who helped develop and popularize card counting in blackjack, was also the inventor of the concept of the hedge fund.

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