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Trivia
The Jell-O company came out with a cola flavor gelatin for
kids in 1942. It was discontinued the following year.
The San Blas Indian women of Panama consider giant noses a
mark of great beauty. They paint black lines down the center
of their noses to make them appear longer.
Monaco is so small, it covers about 350 acres. Fifty-five
Monacos could fit inside the city of Paris. The diminutive
principality still attracts the elite. The capital city of
Monte Carlo still maintains some royal rituals. Tourists
flock to see the Palace's regal changing of the guard.
Monaco is also a popular tax haven for the wealthy.
WHAT IS OSCAR THE GROUCH'S WORM NAMED?
Oscar the Grouch's pet worm on TV's Sesame Street is named
Slimey.
If all the OREO cookies sold to date were stacked on top of
each other, the height of the stack would be equivalent to
the height of 9.8 million Sears Towers. The Sears Tower is
1,454 feet tall.
Pieces of bread were used to erase lead pencil before
rubber came into use.
A zarzuela is an operetta of a traditional type, with spoken
dialogue and lyrical music. The word is derived from the
Spanish after La Zarzuela, the royal palace near Madrid
where the operetta was first performed in 1629. A zarzuela
is also the name of a seafood stew.
HOW STRONG IS SPIDER SILK?
Spider silk is an extremely strong material and its on-weight
basis has been proven to be stronger than steel. Experts
suggest that a pencil-thick strand of silk could stop a
Boeing 747 in flight.
YOU SAY PETUNIA, I SAY POTATO
The petunia and the potato are related to each other.
TEX=MAURICE
Western singer and cowboy star Tex Ritter was born Woodward
Maurice Ritter. He was nicknamed "America's Most Beloved
Cowboy" and is likely best remembered for singing the
award-winning title song in the Gary Cooper/Grace Kelly
classic, High Noon (1952).
"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that
is laughter."
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), American author, humorist
The railroad bridge across the estuary of Scotland's Tay River was
one of the great engineering projects of the Victorian era.
Consisting of 85 spans and nearly two miles long, it was the longest
bridge in the world when it was completed in 1878. Just 19 months
after it opened, on the stormy night of December 28, 1879, with a
strong gale blowing down the estuary, the bridge collapsed into the
river. A train with six carriages plunged into the water, killing 75
and leaving no survivors. The engineer who had designed the bridge
became ill and died ten months later. This disaster remains the
British Isles' worst structural engineering failure.
Two accounts of the Tay Bridge disaster:
http://www.tts1.demon.co.uk/tay.html
may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take
heart! I have overcome the world. --John 16
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