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mint in Denver, Colorado is the only mint that marks its pennies. Female
aristocrats on the island of Portugese Timor in Malaya, indicate their status
by notching their ears. The smallest
island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia, at just 1.75 sq.
miles/4,53 sq. km. There are
more psycho-analysts per capita in Buenos Aires than any other place in the
world. Ireland
currently has the fastest growing economy in Europe - the economy grew by 40%
from 1993-1997. It is for this reason that the country is referred to as the
Celtic Tiger. Bore-hole
seismometry indicates that the land in Oklahoma moves up and down 25cm
throughout the day, corresponding with the tides. Earth tides are generally
about one-third the size of ocean tides. The Chang
Jiang river is the fourth longest river in the world. The
Dominican Republic was called Santo Domingo when it first gain independence. The state of
Oregon has one city named Sisters and another called Brothers. Sisters got its
name from a nearby trio of peaks in the Cascade Mountains known as the Three
Sisters. Brothers was named as a counterpart to Sisters. The surface
area of the Earth is 197,000,000 square miles. According to
experts, large caves tend to "breathe"; they inhale and exhale great
quantities of air when the barometric pressure on the surface changes, and air
rushes in or out seeking equilibrium. At 840,000
square miles, Greenland is the largest island in the world. It is 3 times the
size of Texas. By comparison Iceland is only 39,800 square miles. Zion,
Illinois - located on the shores of Lake Michigan north of Chicago - was
founded by the followers of John Alexander Dowie, whose Christian Catholic
Church disapproved of pharmacies, doctors, theaters or dance halls. Smoking,
drinking and the eating of pork also was prohibited in town. Ninety
percent of all volcanic activity occurs in the oceans. In 1993, scientists
located the largest known concentration of active volcanoes on the sea floor in
the South Pacific. This area, the size of New York state, hosts 1,133 volcanic
cones and sea mounts. Two or three could erupt at any moment. Given their
sheer volume, ninety-nine percent of the living space on the planet is found in
the oceans. The average depth of the oceans is 2.5 miles (4 km). The deepest
point lies in the Mariana Trench, 6.8 miles (10.9 km) down. By way of
comparison, Mount Everest is only 5.5 miles (8.8 km) high. The exact
geographic center of the United States is near Lebanon, Kansas. What is the
difference between a yam and a sweet potato? According to the Mayo Clinic
dietician, a true yam is a large, starchy root that can get up to 100 pounds.
It is native to Africa and Asia and is seldom available in the USA. The sweet
potato is a native American plant. It was a staple for early settlers and was
actually brought to Europe by Columbus. There are two varieties of sweet potatoes:
One is moist and orange-fleshed, the other is drier and yellow. The
orange-fleshed potato is commonly - and incorrectly - called a yam. This common
practice has resulted in confusion when it comes to labels. Some stores
incorrectly label the darker of the two sweet potatoes as being a yam, and they
list the nutrient content for yams. True yams have no vitamin A. So consumers
mistakenly think that the product has no vitamin A, even though it actually
does. Consumers are most likely eating sweet potatoes - and sweet potatoes are
rich in vitamin A, vitamin C and fiber. The first
U.S. consumer product sold in the old Soviet Union was Pepsi-Cola. The most
widely eaten fruit in America is the banana. The dark
meat on a roast turkey has more calories than the white meat. The color of
a chile is no indication of its spiciness, but size usually is - the smaller
the pepper, the hotter it is. A bushel of
apples weighs about 42 pounds. Over 15
billion prizes have been given away in Cracker Jacks boxes. It takes
more than 500 peanuts to make one 12-ounce jar of peanut butter. Carrots were
first grown as a medicine not a food. The Ancient Greeks called carrots
"Karoto". Goat milk is
used to produce Roquefort cheese. Though most
people think of salt as a seasoning, only 5 out of every 100 pounds produced
each year go to the dinner table. Thin-skinned
lemons are the juiciest. There are
two types of asparagus: green and white. One of the most popular varieties of
green asparagus is named after Martha Washington, the wife of George
Washington. There are
thousands of varieties of shrimp, but most are so tiny that they are more
likely to be eaten by whales than people. Of the several hundred around the
world that people do eat, only a dozen or so appear with any regularity in the
United States. There are
professional tea tasters as well as wine tasters. Soy milk,
the liquid left after beans have been crushed in hot water and strained, is a
favorite beverage in the East. In Hong Kong, soy milk is as popular as
Coca-Cola is in the U.S. There are
more than 7,000 varieties of apples grown in the world. The apples from one
tree can fill 20 boxes every year. Each box weighs an average 42 pounds. According to
the National Safety Council, coffee is not successful at sobering up a drunk
person, and in many cases it may actually increase the adverse effects of
alcohol. A tenth of
the 7 million tons of rice grown in the U.S. each year goes into the making of
beer. The
"last meal" for Death Row inmates has became embedded in the American
death-penalty ritual. Reporters have dutifully recorded the last meal menus:
John Wayne Gacy had fried chicken and strawberries; Ted Bundy passed on steak
and eggs; James Smith, executed in Texas in 1990, requested a "lump of
dirt" (request was denied); Missouri inmate Lloyd Schlup asked for venison
and hare (request was granted). Europeans
drink more wine than Americans. France and Italy produce over 40% of all wine
consumed in the world. Strawberry
Pop Tarts may be a cheap and inexpensive source of incendiary devices. Toasters
which fail to eject Pop Tarts cause the Pop Tarts to emit flames 10-18 inches
in height. Ketchup was
sold in the 1830s as medicine. Flamingo
tongues were a common delicacy at Roman feasts. Many wonder
what the difference is between jelly, preserves, jam, and marmalade. In all
cases, jelly is the common denominator. Jelly is fruit juice with added sugar,
cooled and congealed, usually by the addition of gelatin or pectin. Preserves
preserve the largest percentage of the original fruit, containing whole chunks
of it in addition to jelly. Jam is jelly plus fruit pulp. Marmalade has bits of
fruit and the rinds in a jelly. Although the orange variety is most common, it
is often made from other citrus fruits. Spread either of the four on toast, add
a nice cup of tea, and you have one sweet treat. Every year,
Bavarians and their guests drink 1.2 million gallons of beer during
Oktoberfest. The first Oktoberfest was in 1810 and celebrated the marriage of
King Ludwig Iof Bavaria. The MAI TAI
COCKTAIL was created in 1945 by Victor Bergeron, the genius of rum, also known
as Trader Vic. The drink got its name when he served it to two friends from
Tahiti, who exclaimed "Maitai roa ae!" which in Tahitian means out of
this world - the best! Under U.S.
federal guidelines, there should be 21 to 25 jumbo shrimp in a pound. Most common
sports drinks are the equivalent of sugar-sweetened human sweat. That is, they
have the same salt concentration as sweat (but are less salty than your blood).
An increase of as little as 1% in blood salt will cause you to become thirsty. In
Australia, the popular McOz Burger combines 100 percent Australian beef,
cheese, tomato, beetroot, lettuce, and cooked onions on a toasted bun. This
burger was created by Australian McDonald’s restaurant owners, and
became a permanent menu item after a successful promotional period in 1998. The wheat
that produces a one-pound loaf of bread requires 2 tons of water to grow. Milk
delivered to the store today was in the cow two days ago. Only men
were allowed to eat at the first self-service restaurant, the Exchange Buffet
in New York, opened in 1885. Customers ate standing up. Lithiated
Lemon was the creation of Charles Griggs from Missouri, who introduced the
lemon-lime drink in 1929. Four years later he renamed it 7-Up. Sales increased
significantly. There are
2,000,000 different combinations of sandwiches that can be created from a
SUBWAY menu. The Chuck E.
Cheese franchise was created by Atari, a restaurant combining robotic animals
and arcade games with family meals. They name the franchise a Pizza Time
Theater. Chuck E. Cheese was first opened in 1977. Brussels
sprouts are called Brussels sprouts because they were discovered in Brussels. During the
Middle Ages, almost all beef, pork, mutton, and chicken were chopped fine.
Forks were unknown at the time and the knife was a kitchen utensil rather that
a piece of tableware. You should
not eat a crawfish with a straight tail. It was dead before it was cooked. Gatorade was
named for the University of Florida Gators where it was first developed. When tea was
first introduced in the American colonies, many housewives, in their ignorance,
served the tea leaves with sugar or syrup after throwing away the water in
which they had been boiled. For beer
commercials, they add liquid detergent to the beer to make it foam more. Worcestershire
Sauce is basically an Anchovy ketchup. Sixty cows
can produce a ton of milk a day. Ancient
Greeks and Romans believed asparagus had medicinal qualities for helping
prevent bee stings and relieve toothaches. Alcoholic
lemonade is outselling premium bottled lagers in United Kingdom pubs, according
to a report in "NASFT Showcase" magazine. According to
the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Americans eat more than 22 pounds of
tomatoes every year. More than half this amount is eaten in the form of ketchup
and tomato sauce. According to
the National Safety Council, coffee is not successful at sobering up a drunk
person, and in many cases it may actually increase the adverse effects of
alcohol. According to
the head chef at the United Nations, the president of Iceland eats fish every
day for lunch. Additionally, the queen of Denmark has a taste for Japanese
food, and Pres. Bill Clinton has a passion for chicken. Chocolate
not only does not promote tooth decay, it might prevent it. According to the
American Dental Association, milk chocolate contains ingredients, such as
calcium and phosphate, that might modify acid production in the mouth that
leads to cavities. Some oils in chocolate might also prevent tooth decay.
Chocolate does contain sugar, of course, but these are simple sugars that are
less harmful than the complex sugars contained in other foods. Beer foam
will go down by licking your finger then sticking it in the beer. "Colonial
goose" is the name Australians give to stuffed mutton. Fanta Orange
is the third largest selling soft drink in the world. The number
57 on a Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickle the
company once had. The flesh of
the puffer fish (fugu) is considered a delicacy in Japan. It is prepared by
chefs specially trained and certified by the government to prepare the flesh
free of the toxic liver, gonads, and skin. Despite these precautions, many
cases of tetrodotoxin poisoning are reported each year in patients ingesting
fugu. Poisonings usually occur after eating fish caught and prepared by
uncertified handlers. The end result, in most cases, is death. The five favorite
U.S. school lunches nationwide, according to the American School Food Service
Association, are, in order, pizza, chicken nuggets, tacos, burritos, and
hamburgers. The first
macaroni factory in the United States was established in 1848. It was started
by Antoine Zegera in Brooklyn, New York. Ovaltine,
the drink was from milk, malt, egg and cocoa, was developed in 1904 in Berne,
Switzerland. It was originally named Ovomaltine. A clerical error changed it
when the manufacturer registered the name. When it
originally appeared in 1886 - Coca Cola was billed as an "Esteemed Brain
Tonic and Intellectual Beverage". The letters
VVSOP on a cognac bottle stand for - Very Very Superior Old Pale. Opera stars
Nellie Melba and Luisa Tetrazzini are famous for more than singing. They are
also known for food that has been named after them. Nellie Melba (peach melba
and melba toast) and Luisa Tetrazzini (chicken tetrazzini). Sliced bread
was introduced under the Wonder Bread label in 1930. Herring is
the most widely eaten fish in the world. A
hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not. Over a third
of all pineapples come from Hawaii. Wine will
spoil if exposed to light, hence tinted bottles. Turkey
contains an amino acid called tryptophan, which can cause sleepiness (warm milk
also contains tryptophan). Dairy
products account for about 29% of all food consumed in the U.S. As much as
50 gallons of Maple Sap are used to make a single gallon of Maple Sugar. Rice is the
main food for half of the people of the world. There are
more than 15,000 different kinds of rice. The famous
baby appearing on jars of Gerber baby food is actually a girl named Ann Turner.
The picture was drawn by artist Dorothy Hope Smith in 1928. Before it
was unsolicited email, Spam was a luncheon meat. It is so resistant to spoilage
that, if kept in the closed can, it may well outlast eternity and will
certainly live longer than you. Believe it or not it was first promoted as a
health food. In Korea it comes in gift boxes, and placed end to end, all the
Spam ever sold would circle the Earth more than ten times. Only food
that does not spoil: honey. Grapes
explode when you put them in the microwave. Researchers
in Denmark found that beer tastes best when drunk to the accompaniment of a
certain musical tone. The optimal frequency is different for each beer, they
reported. The correct harmonious tone for Carlsberg Lager, for example, is
510-520 cycles per second. In medieval
England beer often was served with breakfast. Spirit of
proof strength was the technical standard by which strength was measured until
1st January, 1980. Hundreds of years ago, spirit of this strength was proved
when Whiskey and gunpowder were mixed and ignited. If the gunpowder flashed,
then there was enough Whiskey in the mixture to permit ignition. Such Whiskey
was held to have been proved - i.e. "tested". If the spirit was
weaker than this, then ignition did not take place and the Whiskey failed the "test".
The amount of black powder used was the same amount as was, and indeed still
is, used to "proof" the barrels of smooth-bore fire-arms. The
estimated number of M & M’s sold each day in the United States is
200,000,000. Spam stands
for Shoulder Pork and hAM. Americans
eat an average of 18 pounds of fresh apples each year. The most popular variety
in the United States is the Red Delicious. According to
the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Americans eat more than 22 pounds of
tomatoes every year. More than half this amount is eaten in the form of ketchup
and tomato sauce. Pigturducken
is a pig, stuffed with a turkey, which is stuffed with a chicken, deep fried in
oil, which is usually put into something similar to a horse trough over propane
burners. The famous
Chef Wolfgang Puck chose the Italian word "Spago" as the name for his
popular chain of restaurants. In Italian - spago = "String" or
"Twine" - slang for spaghetti. Native
Americans never actually ate turkey; killing such a timid bird was thought to
indicate laziness. The Chinese
used to open shrimp by flaying the shells with bamboo poles. Until a few years
ago, in factories where dried shrimp were being prepared, "shrimp
dancers" were hired to tramp on the shells with special shoes. Ice cream
was originally made without sugar and eggs. There are
more than 200 kinds of chili peppers, none of which belong to the pepper
family. Burger
King® uses approximately 1/2 million pounds of bacon every month in its
restaurants. Table salt
is the only commodity that hasn’t risen dramatically in price in the
last 150 years. In South
Africa, termites are often roasted and eaten by the handful, like pretzels or
popcorn. The secret
recipe for Coca Cola, code-named "Merchandise 7X" is kept under lock
and key in a vault in the SunTrust Bank Building in Atlanta, Georgia, the home
of Coke inventor Dr. John S. Pemberton and current world headquarters of Coca
Cola International. John Kellogg
invented corn flakes, for a patient with bad teeth. Charles Post invented Grape
Nuts. Dr. Kellogg was the manager of a Michigan health spa and Post was a
patient. The spa was founded by Sylvester Graham...inventor of the Graham
cracker and pioneer of the early 1800s movement to eat more bran. Mr. Peanut
was invented in 1916 by a Suffolk, Virginia schoolchild who won $5 in a design
contest sponsored by Planters Peanuts. An apple,
onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused
by their smell. To prove this - pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They
will all taste sweet. Americans
eat an average of 18 pounds of fresh apples each year. The most popular variety
in the United States is the Red Delicious. Although the
combination of chili peppers and oregano for seasoning has been traced to the
ancient Aztecs, the present blend is said to be the invention of early Texans.
Chili powder today is typically a blend of dried chilies, garlic powder, red
peppers, oregano, and cumin. A man named
Ed Peterson is the inventor of the Egg McMuffin. The fortune
cookie was invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodlemaker. The Ritz
cracker was introduced to markets in 1934, but gourmets had to wait until 1953
for the invention of cheese in a can. A black cow
is a chocolate soda with chocolate ice cream. The term dates from the Roaring
Twenties, although it also came to be used to describe a root beer float.
Another term for a black cow was a mud fizz. If you would
like to make a Siberian happy, give him a horse-meat steak. A Linthicum,
Maryland woman, dressed only in bra and panties, lost her balance while putting
down linoleum in her home and fell smack into the glue that was spread on the
floor, according to Battalian Chief John M. Scholz of the county Fire
Department. She became stuck to the floor (mistake one) but somehow managed to
free herself after awhile and called the emergency number 911. Student
Robert Ricketts, 19, had his head bloodied when he was struck by a Conrail
train. He told police he was trying to see how close to the moving train he
could place his head without getting hit. A 20 year
old protester was arrested in Montana after he assaulted a congress women from
Iowa with a salmon. Edney
Raphael, 39, running from a stabbing in Philadelphia with a bloody knife in his
hand, was captured following a foot chase; he had turned his head to see where
the officers were and run smack into a parking meter. A young
criminal walked into a bank and quietly handed the teller a note demanding
several thousand dollars. Disguised, the man could have easily gotten away.
However, he had idiotically written the note on a piece of his own stationery;
it included his full name and address. Sawney
Beane, his wife, 8 sons, 6 daughters, and 32 grandchildren were a family of
cannibals that lived in the caves near Galloway, Scotland in the early 17th
Century. Although the total number is not known, it is believed they claimed
over 50 victims per year. The entire family was taken by an army detachment to
Edinburgh and executed, apparently without trial. Airport
security personnel find about six weapons a day searching passengers. A man robbed
a convenience store and ran out with a bag full of cash. He got down the street
and realized he had left his car keys on the counter. When he returned to the
store, he was promptly arrested. A guy
wearing pantyhose on his face tried to rob a store in a mall. When security
came, he quickly grabbed a shopping bag and pretended to be shopping,
forgetting that he was still wearing the pantyhose. He was captured and his
loot was returned to the store. In a stroke
of irony, the maximum security prison in St. Albans, Vermont, was responsible
in 1996 for sending out public relations brochures enticing tourists to visit
Vermont. Eugene-Francois
Midocq, a French thief and outlaw, evaded the police for years, turned police
spy, joined the force as a detective, and ultimately used his knowledge of
crime to establish a new crime-fighting organization, the Surete. A judge in
Louisville decided a jury went "a little bit too far" in recommending
a sentence of 5,005 years for a man who was convicted of five robberies and a
kidnapping. The judge reduced the sentence to 1,001 years. A teenager
in Belmont, New Hampshire robbed the local convenience store. Getting away with
a pocket full of change, the boy walked home. He did not realize, however, that
he had holes in both of his pockets. A trail of quarters and dimes led police
directly to his house. A man was
arrested and charged with the robbery—of vending machines. The man posted bail,
entirely in quarters. A Texan
convicted of robbery worked out a deal to pay $9600 in damages rather than
serve a two-year prison sentence. For payment, he gave the court a forged
check. He got his prison term back, plus eight more years. R.C.
Gaitlan, 21, walked up to two patrol officers who were showing their squad car
computer felon-location equipment to children in a Detroit neighborhood. When
he asked how the system worked, the officer asked him for identification.
Gaitlan gave them his drivers license, they entered it into the computer, and
moments later they arrested Gaitlan because information on the screen showed
Gaitlan was wanted for a two-year-old armed robbery in St. Louis, Missouri. In South
Carolina, an inmate who was paralyzed behind bars says in a lawsuit that
Spartanburg County jail guards should have stopped him from doing back flips
off a desk in his cell. Torrence Johnson, who is suing for unspecified damages,
said recently that he fell and crushed a vertebra while being held in
maximum-security in 1998. A man went
in to rob a bank. He demanded the clerk to give him all the money. They told
him to go sit out in his car and they would bring him the bags of money. He agreed
and went out to his car. In the meantime, the people in the bank called the
police. When they got there the man was still sitting in his car waiting for
the money and they arrested him. A couple
robbing a store caught on camera could not be identified until the police
reviewed the security tape. The woman filled out an entry form for a free trip
prior to robbing the store. A reward of
$1,000 was offered for information leading to the capture and conviction of a
man robbing taxi drivers. The man turned himself in and demanded the reward as
a result. He received a 20 year sentence for aggravated robbery instead. Archduke
Karl Ludwig (1833-1896), brother of the Austrian emperor, was a man of such
piety that on a trip to the Holy Land, he insisted on drinking from the River
Jordan, despite warnings that it would make him fatally ill. He died within a
few weeks. Lawsuits
filed by California inmates cost the taxpayers more than $25 million in 1994. A Hawaiian
stamp of 1851 with a face value of 2 cents was the sole reason Gaston Leroux, a
Parisian philatelist, murdered its owner, Hector Giroux. Richard
Milhouse Nixon was the first US President whose name contains all the letters
from the word "0." William Jefferson Clinton is the 2nd. The record
for the world’s worst drivers is a toss-up between two candidates:
First, a 75-year-old man who received 10 traffic tickets, drove on the wrong
side of the road four times, committed four hit-and-run offenses, an caused six
accidents, all within 20 minutes on October 15, 1966. Second, a 62-year-old
woman who failed her driving test 40 times before passing it in August, 1970
(by that time, she had spent over $700 in lessons, and could no longer afford to
buy a car). Princess
Grace was once on the board of 20th Century-Fox. Abraham
Lincoln had a wart on his face. Bill Cosby
was the first black to win a best actor Emmy. Vincent Van
Gogh shot and killed himself while painting "Wheatfield with Crows." President
Theodore Roosevelt wrote 37 books. Julius
Caesar, Alexander the Great, and Dostoyevsky were all epileptics. When Yul
Brynner had hair, it was dark brown. Ignce
Paderewski, one of the greatest concert pianists of all time, was also premier
of Poland. John F.
Kennedy and Warren Harding were the only United States presidents to be
survived by their fathers. Before he
catapulted to fame, Bob Dylan was paid $50 in 1960 for playing the harmonica on
a Harry Belafonte album. When Errol
Flynn appeared as a contestant on the mid-1950s TV quiz show The Big Surprise,
he was questioned about sailing and won $30,000. Reportedly,
Virginia Woolf wrote all her books while standing. The
godfather of actress Winona Ryder was the late Dr. Timothy Leary, LSD guru of
the 1960s. Winona’s father, Michael Horowitz, served at one time as
Leary’s archivist and ran a bookstore called Flashback Books.
Additionally, her parents were politically active intellectuals, and Beat poet
Allen Ginsberg was a good family friend. When asked
to name his favorite among all his paintings, Pablo Picasso replied "the
next one." Actor Arnold
Schwarzenegger bought the first Hummer manufactured for civilian use in 1992.
The vehicle weighed in at 6,300 lbs and was 7 feet wide. Napoleon was
terrified of cats. James Dean
died in a Porsche Spider. Mickey Mouse
was the first non-human to win an Oscar. The first
U.S. president to visit Moscow was Richard Nixon. Shirley
Temple made $1 million by the age of 10. The first
U.S. president to use a telephone was James Garfield. Mystery
writer Agatha Christie acquired her extensive knowledge of poisons while
working in a hospital dispensary during World War I. Lillian Gish
has the longest movie career of any actress, having debuted as a 19 year old in
An Unseen Enemy (1912), and making her last appearance in Whales of August
(1987). Miss Gish was born in 1893. George
Washington grew marijuana in his garden. While at
Harvard University, Edward Kennedy was suspended for cheating on a Spanish
exam. Early in his
career, William F. Buckley, Jr. was employed as a Spanish teacher at Yale. Anthea
Turner, Walt Disney, Tom Cruise, Susan Hampshire, Whoopi Goldberg, Thomas
Edison, Henry Winkler, Cher, Brian Conley, and Leonardo DaVinci are, or were,
dyslexic. Before
beginning his movie career, Keanu Reeves managed a pasta shop in Toronto,
Canada. The opera
singer Enrico Caruso practiced in the bath, while accompanied by a pianist in a
nearby room. Before
coming to the White House, Nancy and Ronald Reagan were actors. During their
earlier careers each was involved in a performance that foreshadowed their
later lives. In 1939, the then Nancy Davis had one line in a high school play
called, eerily enough, "First Lady." It was, "They ought to
elect the First Lady and then let her husband be president." She and her
future husband also appeared in an episode of the "General Electric TV
Theater" called "A Turkey for the President". Bob Dole is
10 years older than the Empire State Building. In 1996,
Ringo Starr appeared in a Japanese advertisement for applesauce, which
coincidentally is what his name means in Japanese. When young
and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings. Adam Sandler
and Bill Gates rank number 1 and 2 among the most popular role models with male
college freshmen. Jimmy Carter
is a speed reader (2000 wpm). Clark Gable
used to shower more than 4 times a day. Thomas
Jefferson anonymously submitted design plans for the White House. They were
rejected. Salvador
Dali once arrived to an art exhibition in a limousine filled with turnips. Robert
Redford attended the University of Colorado on a baseball scholarship. When
Franklin D. Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945, Harry Truman became the first
U.S. President to take office in the midst of a war. At age 16
Confucius was a corn inspector. At the 1970
Oscar ceremonies, buxom Raquel Welch presented the award for best "special
visual effects." Arnold
Schwarzenegger began his transition from Austrian bodybuilder into an American
film star when he made his screen debut in 1970 under the name "Arnold
Strong" in "Hercules Goes Bananas." Talk show
host Montel Williams had a nose job. The famous
Impressionist painter Claude Monet won 100,000 francs in the state lottery. The
money made him financially independent. Before he
became famous for his TV comedy work, the late Phil Hartman worked as a
talented and respected graphic designer. In fact, he was the designer of the
logo for Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. Whoopi
Goldberg was a mortuary cosmetologist and a bricklayer before becoming an
actress. Michael
Jackson was black. :) The founder
of JC Penny had the name of James Cash Penny. James
Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing his
entire middle finger on his right hand. Sharon Stone
was the first Star Search spokesmodel. President
Grover Cleveland was a draft dodger. He hired someone to enter the service in
his place, for which he was ridiculed by his political opponent, James G.
Blaine. It was soon discovered, however, that Blaine had done the same thing
himself. Attila the
Hun was a dwarf. Pepin the Short, Aesop, Gregory the Tours, Charles 3 of
Naples, and the Pasha Hussein were all less than 3.5 feet tall. President
John Tyler had fifteen children. William
Shatner went to Balfour Collegiate (Regina, Saskatchewan) during his high
school years. Thomas
Marshall (1854-1925), U.S. vice-president, once remarked "What this
country needs is a good five-cent cigar." Howard
Hughes once made half a billion dollars in one day. In 1966, he received a bank
draft for $546,549,171.00 in return for his 75% holdings in TWA. The Taco
Bell dog is a girl. Her name is Gidget. Writer
Director Actor Albert Brooks real name is Albert Einstein. "You
see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman
with a dumb guy."—Erica Jong Green Bay
Packers backup quarterback, Matt Hasselbeck, has been struck by lightning twice
in his life. More than
100 descendants of Johann Sebastian Bach have been cathedral organists. Hitler was
claustrophobic. They had to install a mirror in an elevator just to keep him
from being scared. Humphrey
Bogart was related to Princess Diana. |
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