"Even leeches guard hoards."  From Maclean's Magazine, 1927.

"The shortest distance between two points is not necessarily a straight line!"  From Wabash College's 1973 yearbook.

In the 1880s, children were taught to feed and ride bears.  From Chatterbox, 1884.

"Did you know that rabbits play with toys?"  From The Canadian Pupil's Own Vocabulary Speller Grade 2 by Gates et al., 1947.

"There is neither time nor space!"  From The New Liberator Weekly, 1930.

"Even a plant has a thirst for gold."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1937.

"YOU are the key person."  From Presbyterian Survey, 1961.

A bus stop for penguns.  From The Children's Newspaper, 1949.

"Sponges are like diamonds."  From The Saturday Evening Post, 1918.

From Our Dumb Animals, 1944.

"Bullet-built hairstyles."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1959.

This book about a tree more ancient that Eden was written by a forest.  (Leon Forrest, to be exact.)

"As scary as they look, these are the leaders of tomorrow."  From Didsbury Review, 2015.

"Mr Edison did not know.  What is electricty?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.

"No man of sense ever took any pains to appear wise, as no honest man ever used tricks to display his own integrity."  From Brown's Language Lessons by Henry Kiddle, 1889.

One's heart might be reading deceitful ideas while drinking lemonade and wearing sensible shoes.  From Lighted Pathway, 1978.

Santa has a garden.  From Wee Wisdom, 1926.

You've heard that it takes more muscles to frown than to smile, and it also takes more lines of computer code.  From Atari in Wonderland by Fred D'Ignazio, 1983.

In the 1950s, breakfast was actually in 3-D.  From Improvement Era, 1953.

It turns out that "seeing [is] not believing."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1937.