Moon eggs are laid after the moon builds a nest in your heart.  From Improvement Era, 1940.

Reblog with the last time you were given celery as a gift.  (Our last time was never.)  From Improvement Era, 1956.

You knew that beavers build dams, but did you know they also build dog cages?  From Tip by Gates & Clark, 1939.

"Cats are like people."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1955.

"Plants have their preferences in perfumes just as people have."  From Improvement Era, 1937.

"You have to eat three olives before you like olives."  And here's the machine that proves it!  From The Saturday Evening Post, 1917.

"Cat walks 337 miles."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1904.

Alien nudists?  Alien nudists!  Cue Flying Saucers Uncensored by Harold Tom Wilkins, 1955.

(Illustration from BUFORA Journal, 1978.)

"It is unlawful, in Iowa, for any person to keep a horse in the rooms of an apartment house."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1945.

"All the flavor is not in the cheese (or the salad or dip or soup, or whatever)."  From The Improvement Era, 1960.

We fact-checked this.  "All men's clothing look[s] alike."  From Dark Shadows episode 1215.

Cats are not peas, as we learn in Cats Are Not Peas by Laura Gould.

Robert Taylor "became an actor because a cricket won a race with a spider."  From Movie Classic, 1935.

It's been said that "Australia isn’t so far away" (Duong Van Mai Elliott, The Sacred Willow).  But the reason may surprise you.  "Australia [is] in France."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.

You've heard the great question from The Sound of Music, "How do you solve a problem like Maria?  How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?"  It's actually not that difficult.  We previously saw one way to do it, here.  But the simplest answer is revealed in The Children's Newspaper, 1933: simply use the water droplets' stickiness.

You've heard of things being written from the heart, and here's how it works.  "This is the heart."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1963.

"Don't trust yourself ... underthings can absorb up to 30% of their weight in perspiration without feeling damp. The odor is noticeable to others even when you aren't aware of it."  From Movie Classic, 1933.

Nova Scotia and Banff are much smaller than one might have assumed, with so much being faked by murals, posters, and beef charts.  From Beaver Hill, Teacher's Resource Book by Roenigk, McGauchie & Ohayon, 1975.