Did Ya Know

[Rhonda]

I bet ya' didn't know

1. Johnny Weissmuller, the screen's most famous Tarzan, was hired for the role without a screen test.

2. Wolfgang Mozart (1756-1791), one of the world's foremost composers, died while creating a requiem mass for the dead.

3. Groucho Marx, the great comedian, made his first professional appearance as a boy soprano in a church, but he was dismissed for puncturing the organ with a hatpin. (Not the organist!)

[Rhonda]

In 1809, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in present-day Larue County, Ky. Can you believe it? Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the exact same day, February 12, 1809, but their lives had completely different effects.

Lincoln is best known for freeing the slaves by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, affirming that all men are equal.

Darwin is best known for the theory of evolution, arguing that all men are not equal because some are more evolved.

Darwin's theory has been used by atheists to explain away belief in God, whereas the last act of Congress signed by Lincoln, before he was shot, was to place the phrase "In God We Trust" on all our national coin.

In 1915, the cornerstone for the Lincoln Memorial was laid in Washington.

[Rhonda]

1. Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) wrote 18 volumes of poetry, was graduated from Bowdoin College at 18, married his second wife 18 years later, was a professor at Harvard for 18 years, and was stricken with his fatal illness on March 18, 1882.

2. Boris Karloff achieved stardom in his roles in FRANKENSTEIN and THE OLD DARK HOUSE, yet he never spoke a word in either of them.

3. Studies conducted by the University of California and Mercedes-Benz, concluded that bright yellow and bright blue are the safest and most visible colors for cars. In the U.S., the most popular car color is white, followed by silver and green.


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[Rhonda]

Did Ya' Know:

1. A female lobster is called a hen or chicken. A lobster hen can lay 100,000 eggs at a time.

2. A circa 1116 B.C. Chinese imperial edict claimed that the use of alcohol in moderation was required by heaven.

3. The speed of sound in water is about five times faster than the speed of sound in air. Sound travels at nearly a mile per second in water in 68 degrees Fahrenheit. That's because sound uses molecules to travel. Molecules in water are much closer together than those in air, thus shortening the travel time.

4. Depressed men are two to four times more likely to take their own lives than depressed women.

[Rhonda]

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Can't Get That Ring Off....Try This Remove a ring stuck on a finger by coating your finger With ChapStick and slide the ring right off.

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To Prevent hair coloring from dying your skin. Rub ChapStick along your hairline before coloring your Hair.

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To get rid of paint odor, put a pail of water in the Freshly painted room and the odor should diminish Considerably.

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The average day is actually 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09 seconds. We have a leap year every four years to make up for this shortfall.

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The most popular ethnic food in the United States is Italian food.

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The largest volcano known is on Mars: Olympus Mons, 370 miles wide and 79 000 feet high, is almost three times higher than Mount Everest.

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The artist Vincent Van Gogh sliced part of his ear off in madness.


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[Rhonda]

Today is Sunday, Feb. 26, the 57th day of 2006. There are 308 days left in the year.

1. In 1732, in Philadelphia, Mass was celebrated for the first time at St Joseph's Church the only Roman Catholic church built and maintained in the American colonies before the Revolutionary War.

2. In 1802, hailed as the greatest of the Romanticists poets, he is best known for writing The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables. His father had been a general in Napoleon Bonaparte's army. His name was Victor Marie Hugo, born this day, February 26, 1802.

Hugo supported Napoleon's heir, but when he turned out to be a tyrant, Hugo opposed him and was forced into exile for nineteen years. Victor Hugo wrote: "England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England."

3. In 1919, Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.

4. In 1929, President Coolidge signed a measure establishing Grand Teton National Park.

5. In 1940, the United States Air Defense Command was created.

6. In 1979, a total solar eclipse cast a moving shadow 175 miles wide from Oregon to North Dakota before moving into Canada.

7. In 1993, a bomb built by Islamic extremists exploded in the parking garage of New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.


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Did Ya' Know:

1. "Pecan" is Algonquin for "all nuts requiring a stone to crack."

2. The model year 2000 Oscar Mayer Wienermobile boasted a GMC W-series chassis and a 5700 VORTEC engine, which made it the most powerful Wienermobile in the fleet. It measured 55 hot dogs long, 18 hot dogs wide and 25 hot dogs high (that's 27 ft. x 8 ft. x 11 ft.).

3. Humphrey Bogart, the famed movie tough guy, had such a sweet face a child that he was used as a model to sell baby food.

A healthy adult male each year consumes one-and-one-half times his own weight in other people's patience.


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[Rhonda]

Did Ya' Know:

1. As recently as the 1930s, morphine injections were commonly used by physicians to treat alcoholism.

2. "Tangerine" is named for Tangiers, a port in Morocco. The tangerine was once referred to as "the kid-glove orange" because its skin slipped off as easily as a glove and had the feel of fine leather.

3. Bears are extremely shortsighted creatures, which means they live mainly in a world of scent and sound.

4. Because of their weight, which averages 22 pounds, Japanese cranes require a run of more than 30 feet to become airborne.

5. During the Barnum & Bailey circus fire in 1944, the band began to play "Stars and Stripes Forever," the circus disaster march, to alert the performers that the situation was serious and not part of the show.

6. Antarctica once had a warmer climate. The presence of coal on the continent proves an earlier age saw warmer temperatures.

7. The baby on the Gerber baby food label was a little girl named Ann Turner. Artist Dorothy Hope Smith drew the picture in 1928.


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[Rhonda]

. In 1732, in Philadelphia, Mass was celebrated for the first time at St Joseph's Church the only Roman Catholic church built and maintained in the American colonies before the Revolutionary War.

2. In 1802, hailed as the greatest of the Romanticists poets, he is best known for writing The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables. His father had been a general in Napoleon Bonaparte's army. His name was Victor Marie Hugo, born this day, February 26, 1802.

Hugo supported Napoleon's heir, but when he turned out to be a tyrant, Hugo opposed him and was forced into exile for nineteen years. Victor Hugo wrote: "England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England."

3. In 1919, Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.

4. In 1929, President Coolidge signed a measure establishing Grand Teton National Park.

5. In 1940, the United States Air Defense Command was created.

6. In 1979, a total solar eclipse cast a moving shadow 175 miles wide from Oregon to North Dakota before moving into Canada.

7. In 1993, a bomb built by Islamic extremists exploded in the parking garage of New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.

[Rhonda]

I bet ya' didn't know

1.Isaac Newton dropped out of school because his mother wanted him to be a successful farmer.

2. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."


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[Mel]

wow just reading this I don't need classes hehehehe well history class anyways hehehe