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- Americans on average eat eighteen acres of pizza every day.
- Cut an onion in half, rub it on the sole of your foot, and an hour later you will taste onion in your mouth.
- The average person sleeps for about 220,000 hours (or just over 25 years) in a lifetime.
- There are more than 1000 chemicals in a cup of coffee; of those, only 26 have been tested, and half of them cause cancer in rats.
- Nearly all polar bears are left-handed.
- There is one chance in 2.2 million of dying in an airplane crash.
- Fran Liebowitz once stated, “Sleep is death without the responsibility.”
- The first European country to have a McDonald’s was Munich,Germany in 1971.
- The only film to win an Oscar in every category for which it was nominated was The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003.
- Sammy Davis Jr. and Jim Henson (the man behind the Muppets) both died on May 16, 1990.
- Glenn Campbell and Perry Como were both the seventh sons of seventh sons.
- Leo Tolstoy’s book War and Peace, was originally named All’s Well That Ends Well.
- William Howard Taft was the heaviest president (340 lbs.) and once had the misfortune of getting stuck in the White House bathtub.
- Charles Bronson was one of 15 siblings.
- Joe Pesci was once the lead vocalist with the band, Joey Dee & the Starlighters.
I LOVE RANDOM
I know a lot of you celebrity lovers will be interested in the Oscar section, These trivia facts are laced with the names of so-called celebrities just for your enjoyment. Here we go . . .
FIRST, SOME FIRSTS
- Harry Houdini was the first man to fly a plane in Australia – in 1918.
- Barbra Streisand’s first performance was as a chocolate chip cookie.
- Groucho Marx ate his first bagel at the age of 81.
- The first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal was Shredded Wheat in 1893.
- Steven Spielberg directed the very first episode of Columbo.
- Courtney Cox was the first person on U.S. TV ever to use the word period – in an ad for Tampax.
OSCAR INFO
- The only actress to win an Oscar for less than 10 min. work: Judi Dench, who was on screen for only 8 min. in Shakespeare in Love (1998)
- The only actress to win a Best Actress Oscar in a foreign language: Sophia Loren for Two Women (1961)
- The only posthumous acting Oscar was won by: Peter Finch for Network (1976)
- The only actors to get seven acting nominations without ever winning a single Oscar: Peter O’Toole and Richard Burton
DEATHS
- Orson Welles and Yule Brenner both died on 10/10/85.
- The only mother and daughter to be nominated for Oscars in the same year: Diane Ladd and her daughter, Laura Dern, for Rambling Rose (1991)
- Sammy Davis Junior and Jim Henson both died on 05/16/90.
- Freddie Mercury and Klaus Kinski both died on 11/24/91.
SO ENDS DAY THREE
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