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I Didn’t Know That ... Bet You Jobs and Apple’s then-CEO, John Sculley. Jobs wanted Actor at the age of 82 for Beginners (2010), becoming
to drop the price of the Macintosh and focus more of the
the oldest person to ever win an Oscar in a competitive
Didn’t Know It Either advertising on it, instead of the Apple II. At the time, category. He also received a nomination at the age of 88
Mac sales were not doing well, but Sculley blamed it on for All the Money in the World, making him the oldest
Fascinating trivia facts the software, not the price. Apple’s Board of Directors person to be nominated in an acting category.
compiled by Stanley sided with Sculley and Jobs was let go from the company.
Morgenbesser Even though he was forced out of his own company, he Who Was The Tallest Man Who Ever Lived?
took it as a blessing in disguise and in 1997 rejoined the Robert Pershing Wadlow was born in 1918 and, at the
What Does “O’Clock” firm as the CEO. He later said that the feeling was very time of his death at age 22, he was 8 feet, 11.1 inches tall.
Stand For? liberating, and was the most creative period of his life. His great size and his continued growth in adulthood were
The term “o’clock” is a due to hyperplasia of his pituitary gland, which results
contraction that has become A 1973 Joke Told By Johnny Carson Was Blamed For in an abnormally high level of human growth hormone
more famous and used than A Nationwide Run On What Product? (HGH). Even by the time of his death, there was no
its original form, which was In 1973, Johnny Carson helped spark a run on toilet indication that his growth had ended.
“of the clock.” The practice paper when he joked about a shortage. With an audience
of saying “o’clock” is of roughly 20 million viewers, Carson’s mention activated Who Holds The Record As The Longest Living
simply a remnant of simpler times, when clocks weren’t a national panic. Absolute madness ensued. Millions of Human?
very prevalent. So to distinguish the fact that one was Americans swarmed grocery stores and hoarded all the Jeanne Louise Calment was born in 1875 in France;
referencing a clock’s time, rather than something like a toilet paper they could get their hands on. The empty she lived to be 122 years, 164 days old. To put it into
sundial, as early as the Fourteenth Century one would shelves seemed to support the claim that there really was perspective, the year after her birth Alexander Graham
say something like, “It is five of the clock,” which later a shortage. In the aftermath, Johnny Carson received the Bell patented his telephone. At age 85, she took up
got slurred down to “five o’clock.” blame for propagating the shortage myth and issued an fencing, lived alone until age 110, and quit smoking after
apology on his talk show. she turned 117. Jeanne died at a nursing home in Arles,
Was President Clinton Denied Access To Elvis southern France, on Aug. 4, 1997.
Presley’s Bedroom? What Is Stored In A Camel’s Hump?
The heavily guarded room where Elvis spent his final Contrary to popular belief, camels’ humps are not filled Which Woman Had The Record For The Longest
hours remains in the exact condition it was in the night with water. Instead, these odd protrusions are mounds of Fingernails?
he died. Clothes remain in the drawers, sheets on the fat which allow camels to travel days through the desert The longest fingernails belonged to Lee Redmond, who
bed, and nothing touched. It’s the Holy Grail for any without stopping for a bite to eat. The camel will use started to grow them in 1979 and carefully manicured
Elvis fan, but almost no one has ever walked through the the fat as nourishment when food is scarce. A camel can them to reach a combined total length of 28 feet, 4.5
plush double doors. Only Elvis’s family and the estate carry up to 80 pounds of fat on its back. When a camel inches back in 2008. The longest nail was on her right
manager have keys to the padlocks, and when President consumes the emergency food supply, the hump will thumb and was 2 feet, 11 inches long. Unfortunately, an
Clinton toured the facility in the 1990s, he was denied become limp and droop down. Refueling and a good auto accident in 2009 snapped them off.
access. Rumor has it there’s only been one non-Presley to night’s sleep will return the hump to its normal upright
cross the threshold into the King’s domain: actor Nicolas position. How Many Streets Are Named After Martin Luther
Cage. Cage married Elvis’s daughter, Lisa Marie, and, as King, Jr.?
the story goes, got a personal tour of the bedroom as his Who Is The Oldest Winner Of An Acting Oscar? There are more than 900 streets named after the
wedding present. Christopher Plummer’s acting career has spanned Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. After his assassination
seven decades. He is known for portraying Captain Georg in 1968, cities across the nation began naming and
Why Was Steve Jobs Fired From Apple? von Trapp in The Sound of Music, and has portrayed renaming streets in his honor; even countries such as
In 1985, Steve Jobs was fired from Apple, the company numerous historical figures throughout his career. Italy and Israel followed suit. Nearly 70 percent of those
he helped to create. There was a disagreement between Plummer won the Academy Award for Best Supporting streets are in the South. MLK is the only nonpresident to
have a national holiday in his name.

What Was The First Life Savers Flavor?
Originally, Life Savers only came in peppermint
flavor. They were first created in 1912. Just one year after
creating the product, Clarence Crane sold the rights to his
Pep-O-Mint peppermint candy to Edward John Noble for
$2,900. Noble started his own candy company and began
This Election producing and selling the mints known as Pep-O-Mint
Life Savers. The original fruity flavors – lemon, lime,
Vote K.W. Miller orange, cherry, and pineapple – were introduced in 1935.

Things I Didn’t Know I Didn’t Know. A Swan has
only one partner its whole life; if its partner dies, it can
pass away from a broken heart. Dogs are capable of
learning up to 250 words and gestures; the average dog
Conservationist is as intelligent as a two-year-old child. Everyone has
a unique smell, unique finger print, and unique tongue
print. Pennsylvania still charges its citizens an 18 percent
tax on alcohol to pay for damages caused by the 1936
Johnstown flood. Mobile, Alabama holds the title of the
Conservative rainiest city in the United States, thanks to the average 67
inches of rain it gets each year. Polish Catholic midwife
Stanisawa Leszczyñska delivered 3,000 babies at the
Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust in
Constitutionalist Nazi-occupied Poland. Adolph Hitler and Henry Ford
each kept a framed picture of the other on his desk. Had
it been necessary for a third atom bomb, the city targeted

would have been Tokyo. About one million dogs are the
Independent primary beneficiary in their owners’ wills in the U.S.

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