Not just the Romans! Urine use for tanning and fulling (cleaning wool) was widespread. Starting around the Renaissance, urine was used to make saltpeter, essential for the gunpower used in centuries of wars. For example, saltpetermen would come to dig saltpeter from under the barn where the animals peed (and everywhere else with nitrated earth, under protection of the crown). Urine from beer and wine drinkers was in demand because it was thought to produce better yields. There's even a story during the US Civil war when Jonathan Haralson, Agent Nitre and Mining Bureau, asked the "ladies of Selma ... to preserve the chamber lye to be collected for the purpose of making nitre. A barrel will be sent around daily to collect it." Leading Northerners to write a ditty to the tune of "O Tannenbaum": "Jon Haralson, Jon Haralson—you are a wretched creature; You’ve added to this bloody war a new and useful feature. / You’d have us think, while every man is bound to be a fighter, / The Ladies, bless the pretty dears, should save their pee for nitre."

"It's a Southern Thing" did a skit about 6 types of Back-to-School Moms. #6 was "The Stay At Home" Mom - https://youtu.be/jGoFVcUGyLQ?t=64 - spoofing Risky Business.

I went to North Dakota to see the giant buffalo statue in Jamestown. As a bonus, I drove through Strasburg, birth town of Lawrence Welk and his drummer Johnny Klein. In Idaho I visited Craters of the Moon Nat'n Park ]to see the lava tubes, and drove through Arco, the "first community in the world ever to be lit by electricity generated solely by nuclear power." In Liberal, Kansas I visited Dorthy's house (of Oz fame) and the Mid-America Air Museum. In Mississippi ... I bought gas in Biloxi.

There's the old joke about a drink named the Canadian screwdriver. It's Canadian Whiskey + orange juice, also called a Robertson.

As I recall, flamingos are notable for having a sizeable tongue, for a bird, which evolved from this form of eating. They were considered delicacies in Roman times. For details consult https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flamingo%27s_Smile, which is where I learned it from.

Technically, the Galápagos penguin range just barely enters the northern hemisphere. I didn't know that lions prides were that egalitarian.

Sounds like a revival of the Hippie trail. Checking now, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie_trail says that modern versions avoid Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, by going through Nepal and China to the old Silk Road.

To get an idea of how meteorologists judge if older records are correct, you can read "World Meteorological Organization Assessment of the Purported World Record 58°C Temperature Extreme at El Azizia, Libya (13 September 1922)" at https://journals.ametsoc.org/bams/article/94/2/199/60223/World-Meteorological-Organization-Assessment-of where they evaluated if the 1922 recorded temperature of 58°C (136.4°F) was correct.
See also https://web.archive.org/web/20140103200557/http://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/comment.html?entrynum=3 where a weather historian (!) discusses several record temperature reports.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_mountains_on_Earth#Considerations

If academic pressures, music and art clubs, AAU teams, school sports teams, and a part-time job don't teach responsibility, how does adding chores to the list change things?

Hmm, if 6 planets can be in the habitable zone of a planet a bit smaller than the Sun, then that makes the Firefly system sound ... possible? Until now I was annoyed about the number of planets so close to each other. Seems I should suspend that disbelief!