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Fascinating trivia facts maider, which means “help me.” A mayday call is not he told the crowd, “I hate this song – you sing it for eight
compiled by Stanley something to be taken lightly. In the United States, it’s years, you would hate it, too.” But the fans wanted My
Morgenbesser illegal to make a fake distress call. Doing so can land you Way, so he gave it to them without fail.
in jail for up to six years and subject you to a $250,000
Which Frugal Billionaire fine! Which Celebrity Is Banned From Playing Blackjack
E a t s Al m o st E v e r y At The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino?
Breakfast At McDonald’s? Which President With The Nickname Uncle Jumbo In 2014, Ben Affleck made headlines for getting
Warren Buffett eats the Was The Only Individual To Serve Two Non- banned for life from the blackjack tables at the Hard Rock
same thing for breakfast Consecutive Terms As U.S. President? Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Affleck was in Sin City
every day – and it never The only president to serve two non-consecutive terms when security approached him on suspicion of counting
costs him more than $3.17. tipped the scales at over 250 pounds, so it’s no wonder cards. Card counting – a method of using probability
Investing legend Warren that he earned the nickname Uncle Jumbo. Stephen Grover to predict the next hand – is not technically illegal, but
Buffett is worth an estimated $87 billion, but you’d never Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United many casinos forbid it. The Hollywood high roller was
know it by his lifestyle. The 87-year-old billionaire still States and, therefore, the only individual to be counted told he was “too good” at the game, and that he was no
lives in the five-bedroom home in Omaha, Nebraska, that twice in the numbering of the presidents. longer welcome to play blackjack. According to the New
he bought in 1958 for $31,500. And he never spends more York Post, he had hit it big at the very same casino a year
than $3.17 on breakfast. On his five-minute drive to the Why Did Alfred Nobel Establish The Nobel Prize? earlier, raking in a total of nearly $1 million in two trips.
office, Buffett stops by McDonald’s and always orders one An obituary was published in France in 1888 noting
of three items: two sausage patties ($2.61), a sausage, egg the death of inventor Alfred Nobel, but it was Nobel’s Things I Didn’t Know I Didn’t Know
and cheese ($2.95), or a bacon, egg and cheese ($3.17). brother, Ludwig, who had passed away. The obituary A blue whale’s heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle
was insulting, saying that Nobel made himself wealthy and large enough that you could swim through its arteries.
Which Breed Of Dog Does The U.S. Secret Service by inventing ways to kill people faster. Because he was The luna moth does not have a mouth and cannot eat;
Exclusively Use? concerned about how people would remember him, Nobel it will live only for about one week, with the singular
For years, the U.S. Secret Service has exclusively used came up with the idea of the Nobel Prize, which was purpose of mating. President Nixon had a speech ready
the Belgian Malinois on its canine force. This elite breed funded by proceeds of a trust from his estate. in the event the astronauts were stranded on the moon.
of dog is known for being agile and effective at detecting Seven hundred streets in the United States are named after
explosives. They can often be seen patrolling just outside Why Did Frank Sinatra Hate The Song My Way? Martin Luther King Jr., with one such street in almost
the White House gates, sniffing their way through the My Way is Frank Sinatra’s most iconic song. It became every major city. Dubai holds over 60 Guinness World
throngs of visitors, protesters and joggers passing by. his trademark song and audiences wouldn’t let him end Records, including the world’s tallest building and the
They can run 25 miles per hour and have a bite that applies a show without singing about how he’d lived his life world’s longest bar. There are 328 people named Abcde
hundreds of pounds of pressure per square inch. A Belgian without regrets. The song became a part of music history, in the United States. The top three nations of origin for
Malinois dog named “Cairo” accompanied Navy SEALs and soon everyone was singing it, not just Sinatra. My victims of human trafficking in 2018 were the United
on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Way has been covered by everyone from Sid Vicious to States, Mexico and the Philippines. The United States has
the Three Tenors. In 2005, it was played at more British the world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent
Who Created The First TV Dinner? funerals than any other pop song. The funny thing about households. There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in
In 1953, the TV-dinner company Swanson overestimated all of this is that Sinatra absolutely hated My Way. And an adult human body. Barry Manilow didn’t write his
the demand for turkey by over 260 tons. The owners of whenever he performed live, he told audiences exactly popular song called I Write the Songs. Hillary Clinton
the company had no idea what to do with all the leftovers, what he thought about it. During a gig at Caesars Palace, hasn’t driven a car since 1996.
so they enlisted the help of company salesman Gerry
Thomas. Taking inspiration from airplane meals, Thomas
ordered 5,000 aluminum trays and loaded them with the
turkey leftovers to create the first TV dinner.
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Why Was Opening Day At Disneyland A Near Disaster?
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Disneyland was a huge success and more than 500,000
visitors had visited the park after about one month.

Where Is The Most Popular Spot In The World To
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Who Came Up With The Word “Mayday?”
Mayday got its start as an international distress call
in 1923. It was made official in 1948. It was the idea of
Frederick Mockford, who was a senior radio officer at
Croydon Airport in London. He came up with the idea
for “Mayday” because it sounded like the French word

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