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Trivia ...The Final Column:

I Didn’t Know That ... Bet You The Author Of Which Novel Locked All Of His Clothes Studies have shown that female officers can positively impact
a community and the performance of a police department as
Away So He Couldn’t Leave His House Until He Finished
Didn’t Know It Either His Novel? a whole.
In late 1830, Victor Hugo had a problem. He promised his Which Food Can Help You Lose Weight By Eating It?
Stanley Morgenbesser, publisher a book by February, but he hadn’t even started it yet. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat
submitted this – his 169th So he collected all of his clothes and locked them away. He a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. The
and final monthly column was left with nothing to wear except a large shawl. Lacking same is true of apples.
– just several days before any clothing to go outdoors, Hugo was no longer tempted to How Much Money Was Spent In The U.S. On Mother’s
he passed away on Nov. leave the house. The strategy worked. Hugo remained in his Day Gifts In 2019?
21, 2020, at the age of 92, study each day, and wrote furiously during the fall and winter The National Retail Federation estimated that $23.6 billion
to once again be with his of 1830. The Hunchback of Notre Dame was published two was spent on Mother’s Day gifts last year, with shoppers
beloved wife of 60 years, weeks early, on Jan. 14, 1831. spending an average of $186.39 on their mothers. A nationwide
Birdi. The thousands of Which Fast Food Restaurant Did McDonald’s Own 90 total of $4.6 billion of that was spent on jewelry and $4.4
fascinating trivia facts Percent Of Before Selling Its Stake In 2006? billion on dinners or brunches. As you might have guessed,
that Stan presented over In 1993, Steve Ells opened the first Chipotle Mexican Grill Mother’s Day is definitely a busy day for flower shops. One-
the past 14 years have in Denver, Colo., using an $85,000 loan from his father. In fourth of the year’s floral purchases are made around Mother’s
informed and intrigued readers, many of whom will miss order for Ells to expand his promising fast casual concept, Day. Twenty-five percent of their total sales are made around
a remarkable man they never had the joy of knowing in he needed money. That cash infusion came in the form of an this holiday, according to the Society of American Florists.
person. It is with the approval of Stan’s family – indeed, investment from fast food king McDonald’s. The investment Things I Didn’t Know I Didn’t Know
their feeling that it is what he would have wanted – that from the Golden Arches allowed Chipotle to quickly expand, If a Google employee dies, his spouse gets half his salary
we decided to publish this last column he prepared. from 16 restaurants in 1998 to over 500 by 2005. By the time for the next 10 years. A blue whale’s heart is the size of a
Why Do People Clink Their Glasses Before Drinking Chipotle went public in 2006, McDonald’s owned more than VW Beetle and large enough that you could swim through its
A Toast? 90 percent of the company. In 2006, McDonalds’s sold their arteries. There are 328 people named Abcde in the U.S. There
In earlier times it was common for someone to try to stake and parted ways with the burrito chain. are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in an adult human body.
kill an enemy by offering him a poisoned drink. To prove What Percentage Of Police Officers In The U.S. Are Barry Manilow didn’t write his song called I Write the Songs.
to a guest that a drink was safe, it became customary for a Women? “Bookkeeper” is the only un-hyphenated word in the English
guest to pour a small amount of his drink into the glass of According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, women make language with three consecutive double letters. More vehicles
the host. Both men would drink it simultaneously. When up just 12.6 percent of all police officers. In recent decades, are stolen on New Year’s Day than any other holiday. The luna
a guest trusted his host, he would only touch or clink the women have accounted for a growing share of America’s moth does not have a mouth and cannot eat; it will live only
host’s glass with his own. police officers, but this growth has been relatively slow. for about one week, with the singular purpose of mating.
Why Are People In The Public Eye Said To Be “In
The Limelight”?
Invented in 1825, limelight was used in lighthouses and
theatres by burning a cylinder of lime, which produced Get a second opinion on
a brilliant light. In the theatre, a performer “in the
limelight” was the center of attention. your financial health.
In Golf, Where Did The Term “Caddie” Originate?
When Mary, Queen of Scots, went to France as a young
girl, Louis, King of France, learned that she loved the Schedule a complimentary, face-to-face
Scots game “golf.” He had the first course outside of
Scotland built for her enjoyment. To make sure she was meeting with a Financial Advisor.
properly chaperoned (and guarded) while she played,
Louis hired cadets from a military school to accompany
her. Mary liked this a lot, and when she returned to Kevin Prazenica, AAMS® Terrence Burns, AAMS®, ChFC® Timothy Lynch
Scotland (not a very good idea in the long run), she Senior Vice President – Investment Officer Senior Vice President – Investment Officer Financial Advisor
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of dense orange clay called “pygg.” When people saved
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Which Actor Has Died The Most Times On Screen?
Danny Trejo has been killed on screen more times
than any other actor. Over the span of several decades,
Trejo has appeared in dozens of movies, often as a bad
guy standing in the way of the hero. This has gotten him Mother Nature’s Pantry
killed a whopping 65 times. Close behind Trejo on the list
is the legendary character actor Christopher Lee, whose Serving The Community For 40 Years
iconic characters include Count Dracula and Saruman.
According to the list, Lee has died in movies 60 times
When Did The Word “Dope” Originate? Everything you need for a healthier lifestyle
There are quite a few ways to use the word “dope,”
but all of them are considered slang. It could be used H Sandwiches & Wraps
to describe a not-so-intelligent individual, and even be H Homemade Soups
shorthand for drugs. The original meaning of the word,
however, is pretty different. Dope comes from the Dutch H Garden Fresh Salads
word doop, and accounts from 1807 define it as “sauce,
gravy; any thick liquid.” During the 18th Century, it H Smoothies
was mostly used to describe any mixture of unknown
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in 1851, maybe for the notion “thick-headed.” The H Energy Drinks - Juices
association with drugs came later, around 1890, from the
practice of smoking semi-liquid opium preparation.

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