Arbit Gyan !

Johny Appleseed

Johny Chapman, was known for planting nurseries of apple Trees. He was a wanderer who planted these nurseries to most of the places he went, mostly in and around Ohio , Indiana in USA. He kind of brought about apple revolution. Most famous images of his, show him spreading appleseeds , which has brought about this name, Johny Appleseed.

He lived from 1774 to 1845, never got married as he believed women to be deceivers. He had great affection towards animals. One famous story exemplified it when he bought a horse which was to be brought down, bought green fields for him to recover and then gave it to some needy with a promise to treat the horse humanely.

Johny Appleseed can be used in language to refer to someone who developed any specific industry like father of IT Industry in India can also be stated as Johny Appleseed of IT industry in India.
Danilo Blandon is known as 'Johny Appleseed of Crack'


Celibacy tax

Celibacy can be referred to as the tendency to not to have sexual intercourse. Now it might sound a bit weird, as taxing somebody this.
In Romania around 1966, when Nicolae Ceausescu came to power, celibacy tax was introduced which used to tax a women who has not conceived. Tax was 10 % of the monthly wage. This was one of the horrible laws introduced by Nicolae to increase the population of Romania from 23 Mn to 30 Mn. He said ' The Fetus is the property of the entire society'.

Irony is he was overthrown by the protests by youth a lot of whom were born because abortion was made illegal. This policy let to drastic increase in crime rates, poverty and malnutrition.