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Fascinating trivia facts in 1929 and held out for many years before including them in How Many Workers Died While Constructing The
compiled by Stanley the newspaper. In 1942 following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Panama Canal?
Morgenbesser The Times decided that publishing crossword puzzles was a More than 25,000 workers died during the canal’s
How Much Salary Did good idea to occupy people’s minds and give them something construction. Workers on the construction of the canal had
Steven Spielberg Receive to do if a blackout occurred. to deal with the difficult tropical weather, tropical diseases
For Directing The Movie Which U.S. Presidents Have Descendants Who Are and terrain that was challenging. The French, in their earlier
Schindler’s List? Married To Each Other? attempt, had lost around 20,000 workers, while America lost
Spielberg was not Julie Nixon is married to David Eisenhower. Julie Nixon about 5,600 between 1904 and 1913 because of accidents and
comfortable with taking a was the daughter of Richard M. Nixon, who was running devastating diseases such as malaria and yellow fever.
salary or any royalties from for president at the time of the wedding. Her groom was the Who Received The First Speeding Ticket In The United
the film. He did not want the grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Julie and David met at the States?
film to be done as a way to Republican National Convention in 1956 while his grandfather That singular honor goes to a man named Jacob German,
earn money, and so refused pay and refused to profit personally was campaigning for re-election. They were both 8 at the time. a taxi driver in New York. The date was May 20, 1899, and
from the film. Instead, he funneled the profits into forming a They started dating in 1966, when they were both college German was zipping down the road at a shocking 12 mph in
charity called the Shoah Foundation, which was and still is freshmen, and became engaged a year later. The couple are Manhattan along Lexington Street when he was stopped by a
based at USC. The Shoah Foundation’s purpose is to record still married, have three children and live in Pennsylvania. police officer patrolling on his bicycle. German was arrested
testimony from Holocaust survivors. Where Did Vincent Van Gogh Produce His Most Famous and tossed in the clinker at the station house on East 22nd
How Long Was The Wright Brothers’ First Flight? Paintings? Street for exceeding the speed limit by 4 mph.
In 1903, Orville Wright piloted the first successful flight After the ear incident came hospitalization, and, following Which Country Has More Lakes Than The Rest Of The
in history of a self-propelled airplane 20 feet above a beach that, Van Gogh voluntarily went into a mental institution. The World Combined?
near Kitty Hawk, N.C. The inaugural flight lasted 12 seconds more than 100 paintings he produced during this period include Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined;
and covered 120 feet. Three more flights were made that day, some of his most celebrated works, including The Starry Night, 60 percent of the world’s lakes are in Canada. At last count,
with Orville’s brother Wilbur piloting the longest one, which which was acquired by New York City’s Museum of Modern there are two million, with 563 of them larger than 100 square
lasted 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet. Art in 1941, and Irises, which was purchased by an Australian kilometers. The Great Lakes, straddling the Canada-U.S.
Who Did TIME Magazine Select As “Person Of The Year” industrialist in 1987 for a then-record sum of $53.9 million. boundary, contain 18 percent of the world’s fresh lake water.
For 2019? Was Celebrating Christmas Ever Considered Illegal? Things I Didn’t Know I Didn’t Know
Sixteen-year-old Swedish environmental activist Greta By the time the Puritans settled Boston, celebrating Eskimos keep their food in refrigerators to keep it from
Thunberg was named TIME’s Person of the Year. Thunberg Christmas was outlawed. From 1659 to 1681, anyone caught freezing. In France, it is legal to marry a dead person. In
gained international attention for excoriating world leaders for making merry would face a fine for celebrating the once-pagan Kentucky, it’s illegal to paint your lawn red. More beachgoers
their inaction in the climate crisis in a viral speech she made day. And after the Revolutionary War, the new Congress found are killed by falling coconuts than shark attacks each year. A
at the United Nations. Thunberg is the magazine’s youngest the day so unimportant that they even held the first session on group of ferrets is called a “business.” The Statue of Liberty
choice ever to be named Person of the Year. The other four Dec. 25, 1789. Christmas wasn’t proclaimed a federal holiday was originally meant for Egypt. Scrunched is the longest
final candidates for person of the year were Nancy Pelosi, for nearly another century. single-syllable word in English. The state of Florida is larger
President Donald Trump, the whistleblower who revealed Which President Banned Christmas Trees In The White than England. Before the invention of the eraser, people used
Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, and the Hong Kong protesters. House? bread. The jellyfish is comprised of 93 percent water. Flowers
When And Why Did The New York Times Start Publishing President Theodore Roosevelt, an avid outdoorsman and grow faster if you play them music. A Boeing 747 carries
Crossword Puzzles? environmentalist, banned Christmas trees from the White 57,285 gallons of fuel. The Apollo 11 lander landed on the
The New York Times wasn’t complimentary early in the days House during his presidency. The president feared that real moon with only 20 seconds of fuel left. Two-thirds of all U.S.
of crossword puzzles when it said it was not a game or sport Christmas trees would lead to deforestation. Roosevelt refused $100 bills are held outside the United States. Over 93 million
and was a sinful waste of time to look for letters to words that fit to display a Christmas tree in the White House, fearing that selfies are taken every day. 94 percent of all Americans now
into a pattern. By the following year, nine dailies in Manhattan to do so would be sending the wrong message to the public. have cell phones. 75 percent of Americans use their mobile
and 14 additional large newspapers were offering crosswords. Roosevelt’s action was intended to inspire Americans to just phones on the toilet. More vehicles are stolen on New Year’s
The New York Times, ever stubborn, declared crosswords dead say no to Christmas trees. Day than any other holiday.

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