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Fascinating trivia facts Is Bottled Water Better For You Than Tap Water? television history. The unprecedented live event drew a
compiled by Stanley Bottled water is no safer or purer than tap water, worldwide audience of 90 million people. Barbara Walters’
Morgenbesser although it is substantially more expensive. A recent study interview with Monica Lewinsky came in second with 74
by Glasgow University in the U.K. found that bottled water million viewers, while The Richard Nixon interview by
Who Holds The Record is actually more likely to be contaminated than water David Frost came in a distant third with 45 million views.
For Giving Birth To The from your faucet because it is less well-regulated. Bottled
Most Children? water and tap water typically come from the same sources What Is The Top Suicide Location In The World?
A Russian woman who – natural springs and lakes. While public water supplies In August 1937, three months after the Golden Gate
lived between 1707 and are tested for contaminants every day, makers of bottled Bridge opened, H.B. Wobber became the first of more than
1782 holds the highest water are only required to test for specific contaminants 1,500 people to commit suicide by jumping from that span.
official record after giving every week, month, or year. That’s an average of one person more often than every
birth to 69 children. She had three weeks. There are 11 crisis counseling telephones
27 pregnancies, which included 16 sets of twins, seven Which Is The Only Best Picture Oscar Winner That on the bridge that connect to trained suicide prevention
sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets. Only two of Had No Female Speaking Roles? counselors, and plans to build a net under the span as a
them died in infancy. Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British epic historical suicide deterrent are being considered.
drama film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. Despite
Who Holds The Record For Being The Oldest Woman running nearly four hours long, Lawrence of Arabia has What Happened To The Man Who Assassinated Robert
To Give Birth? no female characters with speaking roles. The film was Kennedy?
India’s Daljinder Kaur was believed to be in her early nominated for ten Oscars at the 35th Academy Awards. Sirhan Sirhan, who killed Senator Robert Kennedy,
70s when she gave birth to a bouncing baby boy on April It won seven, including Best Picture. In the years since, admitted that he was the one who shot Kennedy and five
19, 2016. Kaur and her 79-year-old husband, Mohinder, it has been recognized as one of the greatest and most others at the Ambassador Hotel. He was sentenced to
spent decades trying to have a baby – and finally succeeded influential films in the history of cinema. the gas chamber on April 23, 1969, but the sentence was
after saving up enough money for fertility treatments. commuted to life imprisonment several years later. He
What Is The Reason Jeans Have Rivets? is currently imprisoned in San Diego at the Richard J.
Which Billionaire Installed A Pay Phone In His Home It wasn’t just for style that Levi’s jeans have had copper Donovan Correctional Facility.
For His Guests To Use? rivets on the pockets since the beginning. Copper rivets
In 1966, J. Paul Getty was named the richest man in the placed on the pockets made the seams more durable and
world. Despite his vast wealth, he is remembered for two prevented tearing, which was important to the miners who
odd things: placing a pay phone in his home, and refusing originally wore them. In the 1930s, the pockets were sewn
to pay his grandson’s $17 million kidnapping ransom. to the pants so that the rivets were covered because of
Getty placed dial-locks on all the regular telephones, complaints that they scratched furniture. But they were
limiting their use to his staff. A coin-box telephone was returned to view in 1947. A small fifth pocket was added
installed at his mansion for guests to use, so that he as a handy carrying case for a pocket watch.
would not be billed for their calls. As for his grandson’s
kidnapping, Getty ended up paying the $2.2 million portion What Has Been The Most Watched Interview In
of the ransom that was tax deductible, and loaned the Television History?
remaining $800,000 of the ransom to his son (at 4 percent On Feb. 10, 1993, Oprah sat down with Michael
interest) to pay the kidnappers. Jackson for what would be the most watched interview in

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