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trivia

I Didn’t Know That ... Bet Which Is The Only Best Picture Oscar Winner That Which Is The Only Major U.S. City Founded By A
Woman?
Had No Female Speaking Roles?
You Didn’t Know It Either Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British epic historical In 1874, Julia Tuttle, who hailed from Cleveland, headed
drama film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. Despite to Florida to visit her father, who lived in the area. Despite
Fascinating trivia facts running nearly four hours long, Lawrence of Arabia has the mosquito-infested swamps, she liked what she saw.
compiled by Stanley no female characters with speaking roles. The film was After her father died and left her his land, she purchased
Morgenbesser nominated for ten Oscars at the 35th Academy Awards. more acreage and then talked railroad builder Henry Flagler
It won seven, including Best Picture. In the years since, into extending tracks southward. In 1896, the city she had
Who Holds The Record it has been recognized as one of the greatest and most founded was incorporated. By the 1920s, it was a bustling
For Giving Birth To The influential films in the history of cinema. metropolis. In 2010, a 10-foot-tall statue of Julia Tuttle, the
Most Children? “Mother of Miami,” was erected in Bayfront Park.
A Russian woman who What Is The Reason Jeans Have Rivets?
lived between 1707 and It wasn’t just for style that Levi’s jeans have had copper Which Sea Creature Is Carried To Term And Given
1782 holds the highest rivets on the pockets since the beginning. Copper rivets Birth By Its Father?
official record after giving placed on the pockets made the seams more durable and Unlike other species, it is the male seahorse that gets
birth to 69 children. She had prevented tearing, which was important to the miners who pregnant and gives birth to the young. The male seahorse
27 pregnancies, which included 16 sets of twins, seven originally wore them. In the 1930s, the pockets were sewn is equipped with a pouch on its stomach in which to carry
sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets. Only two of to the pants so that the rivets were covered because of babies. When mating, the female seahorse deposits up to
them died in infancy. complaints that they scratched furniture. But they were 2,000 eggs in the male’s pouch. The male carries the eggs
returned to view in 1947. A small fifth pocket was added for 10 to 25 days until the seahorses emerge fully developed,
Who Holds The Record For Being The Oldest Woman as a handy carrying case for a pocket watch. but very small. Once the baby seahorses are released into
To Give Birth? the water, the male’s role is done and he offers no further
India’s Daljinder Kaur was believed to be in her early What Has Been The Most Watched Interview In care, often mating again within hours or days during the
70s when she gave birth to a bouncing baby boy on April Television History? breeding season.
19, 2016. Kaur and her 79-year-old husband, Mohinder, On Feb. 10, 1993, Oprah sat down with Michael
spent decades trying to have a baby – and finally succeeded Jackson for what would be the most watched interview in Things I Didn’t Know I Didn’t Know
after saving up enough money for fertility treatments. television history. The unprecedented live event drew a The first American film to show a toilet being flushed
worldwide audience of 90 million people. Barbara Walters’ on screen was Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. The largest
Which Billionaire Installed A Pay Phone In His Home interview with Monica Lewinsky came in second with 74 snowflake ever recorded reportedly measured 15 inches
For His Guests To Use? million viewers, while The Richard Nixon interview by across. Samsung means “three stars” in Korean. Four
In 1966, J. Paul Getty was named the richest man in David Frost came in a distant third with 45 million views. percent of babies are born on their calculated due date. When
the world. Despite his vast wealth, he is remembered for Mt. Everest was first measured it was exactly 29,000 feet;
two odd things: placing a pay phone in his home, and What Is The Top Suicide Location In The World? it was reported as 29,002 because exactly 29,000 was not
refusing to pay his grandson’s $17 million kidnapping In August 1937, three months after the Golden Gate believable. Your head ages faster than your feet. The average
ransom. Getty placed dial-locks on all the regular Bridge opened, H.B. Wobber became the first of more mattress contains two million house dust mites. In France,
telephones, limiting their use to his staff. A coin-box than 1,500 people to commit suicide by jumping from Germany, Austria, Spain and the Netherlands, they serve
telephone was installed at his mansion for guests to use, that span. That’s an average of one person more often beer in McDonald’s. Bill Gates’s children will inherit only
so that he would not be billed for their calls. As for his than every three weeks. There are 11 crisis counseling $10 million each from his $87 billion net worth. Atheism
grandson’s kidnapping, Getty ended up paying the $2.2 telephones on the bridge that connect to trained suicide is punished by the death penalty in 13 countries. If humans
million portion of the ransom that was tax deductible, prevention counselors, and plans to build a net under the killed each other at the same rate that we killed animals,
and loaned the remaining $800,000 of the ransom to his span as a suicide deterrent are being considered. we would be extinct in 17 days. Without your pinky finger
son (at 4 percent interest) to pay the kidnappers. your hand would lose 50 percent of its strength. Giraffe
What Happened To The Man Who Assassinated Robert spend 70 percent of their day eating. Human thigh bones
Is Bottled Water Better For You Than Tap Water? Kennedy? are stronger than concrete.
Bottled water is no safer or purer than tap water, Sirhan Sirhan, who killed Senator Robert Kennedy,
although it is substantially more expensive. A recent study admitted that he was the one who shot Kennedy and five
by Glasgow University in the U.K. found that bottled others at the Ambassador Hotel. He was sentenced to
water is actually more likely to be contaminated than the gas chamber on April 23, 1969, but the sentence was
water from your faucet because it is less well-regulated. commuted to life imprisonment several years later. He
Bottled water and tap water typically come from the same is currently imprisoned in San Diego at the Richard J.
sources – natural springs and lakes. While public water Donovan Correctional Facility.
supplies are tested for contaminants every day, makers
of bottled water are only required to test for specific
contaminants every week, month, or year.

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