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Oddlets from United States.
The Steersman Goes Home
What does it look like when the man who taught Wall Street to predict the future can't predict where he parked?
The Buckingham Palace Duel
At six, mid-reverse-bow out of Buckingham Palace, the Queen's poodle came for him — so he drew his sword.
The Bandleader From Saturn
What does a man who insists he was sent here from Saturn do when NASA rejects his application?
No to Edison
What do you do when the man who twice tried to take your patent in court turns around and offers you a job?
The Hatchery Sessions
What does a composer do when the bulldozers show up before the last take is finished?
The Weatherman Was Wrong Again
For ten years, a Chicago dishwasher kept a secret diary grading the local weatherman against reality.
Play a Strawberry
Who feeds a band one cup of soybeans a day for a month and calls it rehearsal?
The Rubber Man
The man who invented vulcanized rubber spent $30,000 he didn't have to build a palace of rubber furniture inside a building made of glass.
The Surgeon Who Wouldn't Give It Back
She was exchanged man-for-man for a Confederate major, and that wasn't even the strangest thing about her wedding.
The Off-Center Wheel
Why would the man who invented the bit build a unicycle that bobbed up and down on purpose?
Prizes Are For Boys
What does it take to invent modern estate planning, compose polytonal symphonies on weekends, and then leave a Pulitzer-winning piece in a drawer for thirty-six years?
The Tidy Man
Who lobbies the League of Nations, twice, to adopt a calendar he designed himself?