These Neighbors Took Their Wacky Antics to the Next Level

The More You Know

• The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
• At the Wife Carrying World Championships in Finland, first prize is the wife's weight in beer.
• In 2009, Burger King launched a campaign that if you unfriended 10 friends on Facebook, you were entitled to a free Whopper. The person you unfriended would get a message telling them that their friendship is worth less than a Whopper.
• Both volleyball and basketball were invented in Massachusetts.