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Fascinating trivia facts order to save the thousands of American military lives artworks, lists more than 1,000 works by Picasso as either
compiled by Stanley that were projected would be lost in an invasion of Japan. stolen, disputed as to ownership, or lost. In 2015, 271
Morgenbesser Who Created Jeopardy! And Wheel Of Fortune? works by Picasso were recovered from a garage owned by
How Much Did A N.Y.C. Merv Griffin is best remembered as the creator of a handyman for the painter, who said they had been a gift
Subway Ride Initially Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune. He also hosted his own from Picasso’s wife, Jaqueline, between 1970 and 1972.
Cost? celebrated TV talk show for more than 20 years. In an The artworks were turned over to an administration that was
When the first subway interview, he said that his wife Julann came up with the idea established for the descendants of the famous cubist.
in New York City opened, of giving contestants answers and asking them to come up What Is The Fastest-Growing Job Predicted For The
it cost a nickel to ride, with the questions. He sold the idea to NBC without even Next Decade?
then went to a dime and, creating a pilot episode. At the time of his death, he was one The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that the
later, 15 cents. Because the of the wealthiest people in the entertainment industry, with fastest-growing job between 2018 and 2028 will be solar
turnstiles couldn’t take two a net worth of over $1 billion. photovoltaic installer. Demand for solar photovoltaic
coins, this is when brass tokens were used to pay the fare, When Did The Worst Train Wreck Accident Happen In panels and shingles continues to grow and costs are falling.
and the tokens were in service for half a century until The History Of America? Plenty of workers will be needed to install those panels.
2003, when Metro Cards were introduced. It took nearly On Nov. 1, 1918, after a day of work, hundreds of Becoming a solar photovoltaic installer doesn’t require
10 years for people to finish using up their tokens, and the passengers were aboard the Brooklyn subway train in lower a great deal of education. It’s possible to take training
MTA ended up stuck with 60 million of them. Strangely, Manhattan and expected an uneventful ride home. However, courses at a technical school. Construction experience,
no one seems to know what happened to all those tokens. 28 minutes after leaving the station at Park Row, the train experience as a journey electrician or an apprenticeship
Who Is The Largest Toy Distributor In The World? rounded a curve near the Flatbush station, struck an abutment all can help.
McDonald’s distributes 1.5 billion toys annually, and crashed. Almost 100 people died and 150 passengers Which Sport Uses The Largest Ball In Professional Play?
making them the largest distributor of toys in the world. were injured, which was not only the worst subway accident The basketball used in the National Basketball
Approximately 20 percent of all purchases at McDonald’s but also the worst train wreck in the history of America. Association is 29.5 inches in circumference, which makes
are Happy Meals, each of which comes with a toy. In the Robert Morris University Was The First College In it the largest ball used in professional sports. Company
United States alone, nine out of ten kids between the ages America To Offer Scholarships In What Subject? founder A.G. Spalding made the first dedicated basketball
of 3 and 9 eat at McDonald’s at least once a month. With Robert Morris University was the first college in in the last years of the 19th century. Are you curious about
68 million Happy Meals sold on a daily basis, if you do the United States to offer video gaming scholarships, the smallest ball? That would be a squash ball, which is
the math; that’s a lot of toys. McDonald’s rolled out the where students can earn up to $19,000 a year in gaming just a little smaller than a golf ball.
first Happy Meal in 1979. The biggest hit toy that came scholarships. The school says it also wanted to give credit to Things I Didn’t Know I Didn’t Know
from the Happy Meal was the Ty Beanie Baby. those with a competitive spirit who don’t necessarily want In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice cream in your
Which Is The Flattest State? to play traditional sports such as basketball or football. back pocket. An electric eel can release a charge powerful
By any measure, Florida takes the prize for the flattest Which Country Has The Highest Percentage Internet enough to start 50 cars. OMG was added to dictionaries
state in the nation because the highest point in the state is Connected Population? in 2011, but its first known use was in 1917. The longest
only 345 feet above sea level. Illinois comes in second, Although it might seem that everyone has an Internet attack of hiccups ever lasted 68 years. The lollipop was
followed by North Dakota, Louisiana, Minnesota, and connection, the truth is that most countries in Europe named after one of the most famous racehorses in the early
Delaware. Kansas, despite its reputation for hill-less and North America only have around a 70 to 80 percent 1900s, Lolly Pop. The first food eaten in space by a U.S.
plains, is merely the seventh-flattest. connection rate, with many members of society not having astronaut was applesauce. The last letter to be added to
When Did President Truman Learn About The Atomic any sort of access to the Web in their home. The highest our alphabet was J. The harmonica is the world’s best-
Bomb? connected population is Greenland, where 92 percent of all selling musical instrument. Eight presidents have died
Truman began serving as president 82 days after the of those living there having an Internet connection. while in office. The average first-time home buyer is 32.5
start of Franklin Roosevelt’s fourth term when FDR Which Artist Had More Paintings Stolen Than Those Of years old. Shirley Temple was U.S. Ambassador to Ghana
suddenly died, and the new president knew little about Any Other Artist? from 1974 to 1976. The top speed at the world’s first real
the plans to end the war. Just moments after Truman’s Art Loss Register, a database of lost, stolen, and found automobile race in 1895 was just 15 mph.
swearing-in ceremony, Henry Stimson, the Secretary
of War, drew him aside to tell him of the atomic bomb “Service is our number one priority”
project. About four months after this, Truman ordered that
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