With a name like...

Just a quick shoutout to the newest family member in the Information Nation blogrolls: Damn Interesting, which posts nuggets of news and history that almost never fail to be, well, damn interesting. Whether it's a story about the Japanese WWII soldier who wouldn't quit or a brief bio on vaudeville artist Hadji Ali a/k/a "The Great Regurgitator", whose grand finale was

...to have an assistant set up a small metal castle on stage while Ali drank a gallon of water followed by a pint of kerosene. To the accompaniment of a drum roll, in an amazing display of accuracy, Ali would eject the kerosene in a six-foot arc and ignite the tiny castle in flames. As the flames grew he would then eject the gallon of water and extinguish the fire. He performed his act twenty-two times a week, sometimes more.

Happy reading!

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