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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
As I was looking through some old boxes and albums recently, I time traveled back to the days of my youth. Trust me it was a long, long, long time ago – circa 1946. So, in celebration of my recent birthday I put together this quick summary of the year I was born.
- It was peace time in American after World War II but that didn’t slow the politicians down too much. President Truman seized the mines after employees rejected government-negotiated contracts and costly strikes hit General Motors, Ford, General Electric, along with meatpackers, musicians, longshoremen, railroad workers, coffin makers, and in Washington, DC, taxi drivers.
- The Army and Navy were granted permission to manufacture atomic weapons.
- On May 2, in San Francisco, Marines landed on Alcatraz to battle armed convicts in an attempted jailbreak.
- Pacific tidal wave kills 205 in Hawaii.
- On July 1 the United States detonated a bomb, the Bikini Helena, beneath the Pacific at the bikini atoll.
- In France, the Cannes Film Festival was held for the first time, after its debut was rudely delayed by Hitler’s invasion of Poland.
- Admiral Byrd led an expedition to the south pole.
- Penicillin was synthesized for the first time by a United States chemist Vincent Du Vignea.
- The three top billboard stars were Perry Como, Dinah Shore, and Frankie Carle.
- In baseball, it was the American League over the National League, 12 to 0, in the annual All-Star game.
- In pro football, the Chicago Bears bagged the National Football League title for a record sixth time.
- The movie It’s a Wonderful Life debuted.
- The top box office celebrity was Bing Crosby.
- Consumers in New York reported eating horse meat as America’s meat and poultry supplies hit an all-time low. While poultry prices reached a dollar a pound, ceiling prices on choice cuts of horse were $.17-$.21 per pound.
- On a shopping spree Cashmere and wool mufflers cost $6.50. 16mm movie projectors were $56.75. A party dress cost $14.95. A set of hickory skis came in at $9.95. A fancy Stetson felt hat could set you back a whopping $6.00.
And last and most importantly: I was born on August 8 (Baby Boomers Rule!).
IT’S FUN TO LOOK BACK, BUT NEVER TO GO BACK
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