Page 10 - Jupiter Spotlight - October '20

Page 10, Jupiter Spotlight
I Didn’t Know That ... Bet You Didn’t Know It Either

Fascinating trivia facts Was President Clinton Denied Access To Elvis shelves seemed to support the claim that there really was
compiled by Stanley Presley’s Bedroom? a shortage. In the aftermath, Johnny Carson received the
Morgenbesser The heavily guarded room where Elvis spent his final blame for propagating the shortage myth and issued an
What Does “O’Clock” hours remains in the exact condition it was in the night apology on his talk show.
Stand For? he died. Clothes remain in the drawers, sheets on the What Is Stored In A Camel’s Hump?
The term “o’clock” is a bed, and nothing touched. It’s the Holy Grail for any Contrary to popular belief, camels’ humps are not filled
contraction that has become Elvis fan, but almost no one has ever walked through the with water. Instead, these odd protrusions are mounds of
more famous and used than plush double doors. Only Elvis’s family and the estate fat which allow camels to travel days through the desert
its original form, which was manager have keys to the padlocks, and when President without stopping for a bite to eat. The camel will use
“of the clock.” The practice Clinton toured the facility in the 1990s, he was denied the fat as nourishment when food is scarce. A camel can
of saying “o’clock” is simply access. Rumor has it there’s only been one non-Presley to carry up to 80 pounds of fat on its back. When a camel
a remnant of simpler times, cross the threshold into the King’s domain: actor Nicolas consumes the emergency food supply, the hump will
when clocks weren’t very prevalent. So to distinguish the fact Cage. Cage married Elvis’s daughter, Lisa Marie, and, as become limp and droop down. Refueling and a good
that one was referencing a clock’s time, rather than something the story goes, got a personal tour of the bedroom as his night’s sleep will return the hump to its normal upright
like a sundial, as early as the Fourteenth Century one would wedding present. position.
say something like, “It is five of the clock,” which later got Why Was Steve Jobs Fired From Apple? Who Is The Oldest Winner Of An Acting Oscar?
slurred down to “five o’clock.” In 1985, Steve Jobs was fired from Apple, the company Christopher Plummer’s acting career has spanned
he helped to create. There was a disagreement between seven decades. He is known for portraying Captain Georg
Jobs and Apple’s then-CEO, John Sculley. Jobs wanted von Trapp in The Sound of Music, and has portrayed
Commissioner’s Update from page 9 to drop the price of the Macintosh and focus more of the numerous historical figures throughout his career.
advertising on it, instead of the Apple II. At the time, Plummer won the Academy Award for Best Supporting
South Florida Regional Transportation Authority, which Mac sales were not doing well, but Sculley blamed it on Actor at the age of 82 for Beginners (2010), becoming
runs Tri-Rail, as well as past chair and current member the software, not the price. Apple’s Board of Directors the oldest person to ever win an Oscar in a competitive
of the Transportation Planning Agency (TPA), f/k/a the sided with Sculley and Jobs was let go from the company. category. He also received a nomination at the age of 88
Metropolitan Planning Organization. Throughout the Even though he was forced out of his own company, he for All the Money in the World, making him the oldest
pandemic, Tri-Rail has offered a reduced schedule with an took it as a blessing in disguise and in 1997 rejoined the person to be nominated in an acting category.
emphasis on rush hour trains, with a total cessation of fares firm as the CEO. He later said that the feeling was very Who Was The Tallest Man Who Ever Lived?
in order to help our essential workers commute to and from liberating, and was the most creative period of his life. Robert Pershing Wadlow was born in 1918 and, at the
jobs. With 18 stations along 73.4 miles of track connecting A 1973 Joke Told By Johnny Carson Was Blamed For time of his death at age 22, he was 8 feet, 11.1 inches tall.
Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, this is a A Nationwide Run On What Product? His great size and his continued growth in adulthood were
vital public transportation option with an average weekday In 1973, Johnny Carson helped spark a run on toilet due to hyperplasia of his pituitary gland, which results
ridership of 15,000. paper when he joked about a shortage. With an audience in an abnormally high level of human growth hormone
The TPA, tasked with forecasting needs and planning of roughly 20 million viewers, Carson’s mention activated (HGH). Even by the time of his death, there was no
transportation projects to major roads funded by state a national panic. Absolute madness ensued. Millions of indication that his growth had ended.
and federal dollars, prioritizes improvements needed to Americans swarmed grocery stores and hoarded all the
enhance safety and create additional road capacity, as well toilet paper they could get their hands on. The empty
as recommends and funds projects that offer transportation
alternatives. As an avid cyclist, I have supported improvements
related to nonmotorized means of travel, focusing on
pathways for walking and bicycling. An upcoming project
approved through the TPA will install flashers at pedestrian
crosswalks along A1A at the beach, which is a heavily used
recreation corridor in Juno Beach and Jupiter.
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