Hey, gang! Doesn't look like I missed much yesterday. I will now list a bunch of useless trivia (as if that's not redundant) for your reading pleasure.
FOR DEET & SOAPY
- Number of Starbucks in Chicago's O'Hare Int'l Airport: 15. In all of South Dakota: 6.
- King Louis XIV is credited with being the first person to add sugar to coffee, in 1715.
- Dark-roasted coffee is "weaker" than medium roast. Roasting burns off caffeine.
- According to a Turkish proverb: Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and as sweet as love.
FOR SOAPY
- Alabama's state quarter spells out Helen Keller's name in braille.
FOR DEET & JAILY
- First state to require license plates on cars: New York, in 1901.
FOR TINK & JAILY
- Butterflies can get drunk on the juice of rotten fruit.
- Ten percent of drinkers will go on to become alcoholics.
- In Turkey, drunk drivers are dropped off 20 miles from home and made to walk back.
- Beer wasn't sold in cans until 1935.
- It takes one can of hard cider to get a beaver drunk and 480 pints of beer to get an African elephant drunk.
FOR TINK & MIDDY
- 40% of U.S. couples say they first discussed marriage in the back seat of the car.
- Marriages lasting more than 13 years are more likely to end in death than in divorce.
- 31% of men say they look at other women when they're with their significant others. 62% of women say their significant others do.
- In ancient Rome, yellow was the color most associated with weddings.
- In ancient Rome, wedding guests wished a bride good luck by breaking the cake over her head.
- In 1892, Italy raised the minimum marrying age for females... to 12.
FOR TINK & TAZ
- Most common way Americans acquire their cats: by adopting a stray.
- Democrats are more likely than Republicans to own a cat.
- Most people who are allergic to cats aren't allergic to cat fur, cat dander, cat saliva, or cat urine. They are actually allergic to sebum, a fatty substance by the cat's sebaceous glands.
- Cats also have "whiskers" on the back of their forelegs.
FOR TINK
- At one North Carolina golf club, you can rent a llama to be your caddy for $100.
- White is the most common color for houses in the United States.
- In 1908 New York City passed a law forbidding women to smoke in public.
- Nonsmokers dream more at night than smokers.
FOR MIDDY
- First person to make a solo flight from Hawaii to the mainland: Amelia Earhart.
- Hawaii is the only state that has never recorded a temperature below 0°F.
FOR TAZ
- Pizza Hut uses 80 million pounds of tomatoes each year.
- Burger King and Pizza Hut both opened franchises for U.S. troops in Iraq,
- Mozart wrote a piano piece that required the player to use both hands and his nose.
FOR HARRIS
- Who owned the last cow to be kept at the White House? William Howard Taft (1909-1913).
- Cows outnumber people in nine U.S. states.
- On February 18, 1930, a cow flew in an airplane for the first time.
- Sports commentator Halsey Hall was the first to say "holy cow" during a baseball broadcast.
- Like fingerprints and snowflakes, no two Holstein cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
FOR AKIVA
- Canada's official animal is the beaver.
- In Canada, milk is sold in plastic bags as well as in jugs.
- In 2002 alone, UFO sightings in Canada increased by 42%.
FOR ACTR
- According to experts, the tap water in Montpelier, Ohio, is the world's best tasting.
- What do California, Delaware, Florida, Oregon, Idaho, Kansas, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Wyoming all have in common? They are all cities in Ohio.
FOR POLLY
- 50% of Americans say they like going to the dentist.
- Before World War II, most Americans did not brush their teeth regularly.
FOR DGG
- Strawberries get their name because the plant "strews" its runners across the ground.
FOR WIZARD
- The famous "horse's head" seen in THE GODFATHER was a real horsehead the producers got from a dog-food company.
... lastly...
FOR ALL THE GRATEFUL WOMEN ON HERE
In 1923, the U.S. Attorney General declared it legal for women to wear trousers.
Cheers!
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
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