Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
How's this for a first writing gig? Richard Peck got his start ghostwriting sermons for Army chaplains. (Source)
Richard Peck writes all of his books on an electric typewriter. Every. Single. One. (Source)
There were an estimated 1,248 casualties at the Battle of Belmont—607 Union and 641 Confederate. (Source)
One of the first permanent settlements of white people in what's now the United States was established by the French at Nouvelle-Orléans in 1718. (Source)
Feeling like a road trip? Grand Tower, Illinois, is a real place. (Source)