J. I. Rodale was the creator of the popular health magazine called Prevention. In 1971 at the age of 72, he appeared on the Dick Cavett show, where he boasted in front of cameras that doctors had given him only six months to live 30 years ago. Because of his healthy lifestyle espoused in his magazine, he was sure he'd live to be 100. Later in the show it appeared as if he had fallen asleep on the set, and Cavett chuckled about it…..

until he realized the man was dead. The show never aired.

Salvador Dali, eccentric painter, bought a large castle in Spain for his wife. In one of the rooms, there stood a rather ugly, old-fashioned radiator, so his wife asked him if he would paint a screen for it. He did. The screen depicted in realistic detail…..

the radiator it was hiding.

A fishing competition off the coast of Sandwich had to be called off on October 20, 1946. The freighter Helena Mogeska had broken up and beached nearby, and all her cargo floated into the bay, making fishing impossible that day. The cargo consisted of…..

crates full of canned fish.

Sculptor Lorado Taft was working on a piece that required the effect of wind-blown robes. Unable to get the effect he desired, he went out to walk one windy day and found himself walking on the opposite side of the street from two nuns. He followed them for some time taking notes on the way their robes swirled in the wind. Then he noticed with alarm that an unsavory-looking character was following very closely behind the nuns. He crossed the street to come to their aid and found himself face to face with…..

another sculptor.

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