Think about your thumbs. Now think about how they’d look if they were giant spikes and you were a dinosaur. If both those things were true you’d be an Iguanodon, and extinct for about 125 million years. Fact: The Iguanodon was the second type of dinosaur formally named back in 1825 by english geologist Gideon Mantell. Fact: It was one of the dinosaurs that was the basis for Godzilla. Not a Fact: Iguanodons are related to today’s iguanas. Fact: The Winking Lizard Tavern location I visited in Ohio had a live iguana on display in the restaurant.

In this world there exist creatures of such might and power that they are only spoken of in whispered legends: the Leviathan of the Bible, Loki’s Fenris Wolf, the tri-head that guards the underworld Cerberus, man’s search for God allegory Moby Dick, the fearsome Tarrasque, Jaws. Along with these beasts there also exist foods of a nature so epic that they can only be eaten to be believed: Big Pie in the Sky Pizzeria’s Carnivore Challenge, the Sahara Hotel and Casino’s Big Badass Burrito, the mess of fries and smoked meat hoagie that is Papa Bob’s Bar-B-Que Ultimate Destroyer Challenge. All these however are just foothills when compared to the prime dish of Tio’s Mexican Cafe, the geological apocalypse known only as Mount Nacheesmo, the five pound mountain of nachos.

Here are some facts about Niagara Falls: It is technically 3 separate waterfalls; Horseshoe Falls, American Falls, and Bridal Veil Falls. It is a cataract type waterfall. Its total height is 167 feet. Its average water flow is 64,750 cubic feet a second. On October 19 in 1901 a cat named Lagara was sent over the Falls in a barrel in order it test it for the first person to go over the Falls, Annie Taylor, who would do so on October 24th of that year. They both survived. There are giant statues of Nikola Tesla on both the American and Canadian side of the Falls. The Canadian side is also home to one of the world’s twenty or so Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville Restaurants.