Ponder
Points
So, if you bought
had bought a book in 1896 called “Personal Recollections of Joan of
Arc” and it was penned by someone named Sieur Louis de Conte…would
you have ever guessed that the author was really Mark Twain?
Probably not…..
If you get asked
what is the state sport of Alaska……you can answer that it’s dog
mushing and you’d be correct.
While we’re on
Alaska…..the US Government started the Siberian reindeer herd in
1891 by giving the Eskimos a herd of 16 to start off with…
Benjamin
Franklin…..no college, no high school, no junior high school, no
elementary school…just the first grade and one year with a private
teacher…..
The Broadway
musical…”Hello Dolly” was written for what famous entertainer? Why,
that’d be Ethel Merman…she didn’t star in it until much later on.
Queen Elizabeth
visited Canada in 1960…..while she was there a popular American song
was banned from being played over Canadian stations….what was it?
The very popular …”Battle of New Orleans” by Johnny Horton……was a
ballad about the Americans winning the battle in 1815 with the help
of Andrew Jackson…..
Anyone out there
speak Luxembourgish? If so, then you’re probably from the country of
Luxembourg. Can you take lessons for this?
When someone in
Arkansas was filling out the form to enable their town to get a post
office, the following happened……the form asks for the name of the
town…..underneath it says……”write in ink”…so the person filling out
the form did as instructed…now they live in Ink, Ark.
Buddy Holly’s
drummer was responsible for the song title…”Peggy Sue”…..Buddy
wanted to call his song…”Cindy Lou” but the drummer had a girlfriend
named Peggy Sue and the rest you know.
You knew that the
nine-banded armadillo always gives birth to identical quadruplets.
A man’s heart
weighs 10-12 ounces on the average…a woman’s? Anywhere from 8-10
ounces…And you always said that women have more heart….
Hardly seems worth
the effort…a mayfly takes 3 years to hatch, and then lives for about
6 hours…..should have stayed in bed…..
The first messages
sent by air traveled by? Smoke, nope, pigeon, nope…..arrow? Yep.
About the 5th century BC.
Chlorine is the
most common element in saltwater…
The typical set of
Scottish bagpipes has how many pipes? Five…..I don’t have time to
describe them all.
A day on Mars is 24
hours, 37 minutes and 22 seconds…..if you were there you could work
more than 24 hours, couldn’t you?
The average human
has between 120,000 and 150,000 hairs on their head…except me…..
Poultry is
domesticated fowl……fowl is just fowl……
A horse is called a
‘weanling’ before it becomes a yearling. Oddly all horses use
January 1st as their birthdays…Is this correct?
There isn’t any
real lead in a lead pencil…it’s graphite and clay…..graphite once
was thought to be a type of lead.
A great horned owl
can turn it’s head 270 degrees……more than I can…..
Worker
ants…..always female…Can carry over 50 times their own body
weight….
David Niven, the
famous British actor made his screen debut in a Hopalong Cassidy
movie. He was dressed as an Indian and wearing a blanket….obviously
he wasn’t allowed to speak.
The name of the
dolphin that played Flipper in the movie? She was named Mitzi in
real life…or marine life…whatever.
Hershey chocolate
syrup……was used for blood in the 1960 Hitchcock movie ..”Psycho”
black and white movie…remember?
You knew that King
Kong lived on Skull Island, didn’t you?
The J.C. in J.C.
Penney……what’s that stand for? James Cash……
Talk about
cheap….Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis each got $100 for their first
appearance on the Ed Sullivan show in June of 1948…..I missed that
one.
One for the
Trekkies…..what was the original name for the USS Enterprise? It was
originally called the USS Yorktown. Don’t know who did it or why it
was changed.
The USS Nevada was
the only battleship in the US Navy to have been at Pearl Harbor and
at the invasion of Europe on D-Day.
The pass word for
the Allies on D-Day was ……..”Mickey Mouse”.
Shoeless Joe
Jackson was the only baseball player to bat over .400 as a rookie.
In his first year as a major league player, he hit .408 for the
Cleveland Indians in 1911.
Basketball got its
name from it’s inventor…James Naismith in December 1891……was first
played using half-bushel peach baskets as the goals.
14-year-old Nadia
Comaneci of Romania…was the first gymnastic athlete to have received
a perfect 10 score in the Olympics of 1976.
First
million-dollar career for a sports figure…was made by heavyweight
boxer…John L. Sullivan.
Forgot this note on
the Olympics….who always marches last in the opening procession ?
The country that is hosting the event for that year.
George Custer paid
$127.80 for an insurance premium just before the Battle of the
Little Big Horn…..it was a $5,000 death benefit policy.
By the way,
Custer’s real official rank at the time of the big battle was Lt.
Colonel. On television …what family lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane?
Come on, you know it was the Munsters.
You might need to
know that par on the longest golf hole in the world is 7. By the
way, that hole 909 yards long……7th hole at Japan’s Sano
Course in Satsuki…..Now you know.
Woody Allen’s legal
name is Heywood Allen…His original name was Allen Stewart Konigsberg.
Johnny Carson only
played in one movie…can you name it? “Looking for Love” with Connie
Francis in 1965.
When margarine
first appeared on the market in England…you would see it advertised
as ‘butterine’.
The Gaelic name
Campbell……means ‘crooked mouth’
What do you call a
maid of honor at a wedding in England? The chief bridesmaid, of
course.
