Today’s lesson: be sure to bend your knees and follow-through (and don’t choke on number 500)
Harold “Bunny” Levitt has died at age 96. Levitt was the famed free-throw shooter of the all-black Harlem Globetrotters. Between quarters of basketball games, the Globetrotters challenged any member of the audience to beat Bunny in a free-throw contest. Anyone beating Bunny won $1,000. The Globetrotters never paid a dime. In 1935 he made 499 consecutive free-throws. Oh, and one other thing, Bunny was 5 feet 4 inches and white.
Talk about ODDexits. Workers renovating a home in Budapest came upon a large barrel of rum. Enjoying its “special flavor,” they drank the rum on the job, and took bottles home. When finally drained, the barrel seemed heavier than expected. Looking inside, they found the pickled remains of a man. Turns out that the former owner of the home, rather than pay the costs and duties of bringing home her husband’s body from Jamaica, had it placed in the barrel and shipped to Hungary. Yo ho ho and a bottle of yuk.
~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com
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