Hey Jude was the Beatles’ last No. 1 hit single in the U.S.
Nope. It was
The Long and Winding Road, which last topped the charts on June 13, 1970.
Major League Baseball’s Darren Baker Rule sets the minimum age for bat boys at 14.
Yup. The rule was implemented following the 2002 World Series after Darren Baker, the three-year-old son of San Francisco Giants manager Dusty Baker, was nearly mowed down at home plate when he wandered out of the dugout to retrieve a bat.
The non-monetary payment was given to the doctor who delivered Dolly Parton was a chicken.
No-Way, man! It was a sack of cornmeal. Dr. Robert Thomas’s medical bag is on display in the Chasing Rainbows Museum at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
Watches were the first product Richard Sears sold—before launching his famous Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog.
Yep. Sears, a railroad station agent in North Redwood, Minnesota, started selling watches in 1886 after a local jewelry store refused delivery of a shipment. When the watches sold, he ordered more, then hooked up with watch repairman Alvah Roebuck. Soon after they started their successful mail-order business.
Richard Warren Sears
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