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                                                                          trivia




            I Didn’t Know That ... Bet You Didn’t Know It Either



                                                         Fascinating trivia facts compiled by Stanley Morgenbesser.
      Who paid the postage until                        children. Firstborn children made up the second largest group   forming a strong friendship. She called him “Albertle”
      the mid-19th Century?                             among the 44 commanders-in-chief. Firstborn children may   when they were young. As adults, they reconnected when
        Recipients, not senders,                        often be natural leaders, but only 14 United States presidents   Albert moved to Berlin for work; he was married at the time.
      had to pay for postage on                         were the oldest in their respective families. Seven presidents   Elsa was living there with her two daughters. She had been
      the letters they received.                        were the youngest in their birth order. There has yet to be a   recently divorced from her first husband. Albert would visit
      As a result, people tended                        president who was an only child.                   often. The two began a romantic relationship. And the rest,
      to refuse many letters in                         How far away is our sun?                           as they say, is history.
      order to escape paying for                          We all know that the sun is the star around which all the   Whom did ESPN name the greatest athlete of the 20th
      them, which caused the post                       planets in our solar system revolve. You might think that   Century?
      office to spend an inordinate                     the Earth is relatively close, given that it just takes just 365     ESPN named Michael Jordan the greatest athlete of the
      amount of time returning mail                     days to make one orbit, but you’d be wrong. The Earth is   20th Century. Considered one of the best basketball players
      to senders. Postage stamps –                      a whopping 93 million miles from its star, a distance so far   ever, Jordan dominated the sport from the mid-1980s to
      which were prepaid – were introduced in America in 1847   that it takes light over eight minutes to reach Earth. It would   the late 1990s. He led the Chicago Bulls to six National
      and eliminated this problem.                      take a driver traveling at 65 mph an astonishing 163 years   Basketball Association championships and earned the NBA’s
      When it comes to sibling birth order, where were most   to drive to the sun.                         Most Valuable Player Award five times. With five regular-
      U.S. presidents born?                             Who was Albert Einstein’s second wife?             season MVPs and three All-Star MVPs, he became the most
        Throughout history, the majority of our commanders-in-    Einstein’s second wife, Elsa, was his first cousin on his   decorated player in the NBA. Legendary slugger Babe Ruth
      chief have been middle children. Abraham Lincoln, JFK and   mother’s side. Cousins marrying each other wasn’t frowned   came in second on ESPN’s list, while boxer Muhammad Ali
      Donald Trump were all middle children. In fact, just over half   upon at that time. Their fathers were cousins and their mothers   locked down the third spot.
      – exactly 23 – of United States presidents have been middle   were sisters. They both spent their childhoods together,


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