J.J. Thomson won the Nobel in Physics (1906) when he showed electrons were particles. His son won it in 1937 for showing that electrons are waves. And they were both right.
There is an official Russian spinoff of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” called “It’s Always Sunny in Moscow” that focuses on the owners of a Moscow bar named Philadelphia.
Men who help with housework tend to have more sex.
Most burns received by firefighters are in fact scalds, brought on by their sweat turning into steam. Many Fire Services provide t-shirts to be worn underneath fire kit that wick away moisture to try and avoid this.
The US government commissioned teams of artists and scientists to devise ways to warn humans 10,000 in the future of buried radioactive waste. One suggestion was to breed cats whose fur changed color when exposed to radiation, then immortalize the cats in song and legend.
Kirk Douglas’ son, Eric Douglas, tried a career in stand-up comedy. At one point he was frustrated by the audience’s reaction, so he shouted ‘I’m Kirk Douglas’s son!’. An audience member responded by standing up and shouting ‘No, I’m Kirk Douglas’s son!’, followed by the rest of the audience.
In the 1986 NBA draft, Len Bias, the #2 pick by the Boston Celtics died of cocaine overdose 2 days after his draft night. He is considered by some sportswriters to be one of the greatest players not to play at the professional level.
In 2011, a survey done showed that approximately 60% of Jamaicans would push to once again become a British territory; citing years of social and fiscal mismanagement in the country.
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1406 - Angelo Correr elected Pope Gregory XII
1908 - 8th Davis Cup: Australasia beats USA in Melbourne (3-2)
1963 - 51st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats BC Lions, 21-10
1975 - Dahomey becomes Benin
1990 - US President George H. W. Bush offers to send Secretary of State James Baker to Baghdad to meet with Saddam Hussein
2004 - Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
1764 - Franz Xaver Gerl, composer
1836 - Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)
1920 - Virginia Mayo, St Louis Mo, actress (Out of the Blue, White Heat)
1954 - June Pointer, singer (Pointer Sisters-I'm So excited)
1972 - Spence Fischer, WLAF quarterback (Scotland Claymores)
1977 - Kazumi Saitoh, Japanese baseball player
1016 - Edmund II, Ironsides, King of the Saxons (1016), dies at 27
1718 - Charles XII, king of Sweden (1697-1718), dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway at 36
1931 - Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas, composer, dies at 46
1986 - Cary Grant, Brit/US actor (Awful Truth, Charade, Father Goose), dies
1997 - Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian, dies at 37
2007 - Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil, at 69
Good Morning to you all, and welcome to Thursday, which is also known as Thanksgiving Day! Today is a very special day where friends and family will be getting together to sit down to a nice roasted turkey meal. However, before you all pack up and head to someone else’s house for food, we want to share with you a great optical illusion. Sometimes people can spot things when they look at mountains, and that is definitely the case with today’s optical illusion. Check out this mountain, and do you all see something hidden among the ragged peaks and rocks? You are absolutely correct! There is a face staring right back at you! Do you all see it? Here is a hint, the nose is in the direct center of the face, and that should help you all see the rest of the face too. Whether this is just an illusion, or a trick of the light, it sure is an amazing optical illusion.
After you all eat your turkey, you may want to go exercise a little bit, and this woman is riding a horse in this stunning optical illusion! Horseback riding is a great way to work off all that turkey, and we hope you all have a really great Thanksgiving holiday with those you love!
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Good Morning to you all, and welcome to Thursday, which is also known as Thanksgiving Day! Today is a very special day where friends and family will be getting together to sit down to a nice roasted turkey meal. However, before you all pack up and head to someone else’s house for food, we want to share with you a great optical illusion. Sometimes people can spot things when they look at mountains, and that is definitely the case with today’s optical illusion. Check out this mountain, and do you all see something hidden among the ragged peaks and rocks? You are absolutely correct! There is a face staring right back at you! Do you all see it? Here is a hint, the nose is in the direct center of the face, and that should help you all see the rest of the face too. Whether this is just an illusion, or a trick of the light, it sure is an amazing optical illusion.
After you all eat your turkey, you may want to go exercise a little bit, and this woman is riding a horse in this stunning optical illusion! Horseback riding is a great way to work off all that turkey, and we hope you all have a really great Thanksgiving holiday with those you love!
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The 1948 high school fad of “Red-Out” was one of the stupidest high school fads ever. Students would kneel, breathe deeply 10 times, close their lips around their thumbs and then blow, without actually exhaling, until they turned red and passed out. They would wake up believing they had been chased by monsters, while being unconscious.
– via weirduniverse.net
A study showed the brain’s pain receptors activate when we see high prices, but using credit cards instead of cash effectively anesthetizes the pain of paying.
A nomadic tribe lived over 12,000 years ago in Turkey and built massive megaliths over 25-acre area. At that time mankind only knew how to make fire but had not discovered the wheel yet. Excavations are still going on today.
‘Mein Keimpf’ by Adolf Hitler is the second-worst rated book on GoodReads. Number one is ‘Dianetics’ by L. Ron Hubbard.
1887 - US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii
1902 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Der arme Heinrich" premieres in Vienna
1924 - 12th CFL Grey Cup: Queen's University defeat Toronto Balmy Beach, 11-3
1933 - 1st state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania)
1987 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1990 - "Shogun - The Musical" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 72 perfs
1874 - Francis Dodd, British artist (d. 1949)
1896 - Rod(erique) La Rocque (La Tour), western actor (Beau Bandit)
1931 - Frank T Mdlalose, KwaZulu minister of Internal minister
1936 - Davide Anzagai, composer
1951 - Barry Goudreau, Boston Mass, rock guitarist (Boston)
1953 - Alex Grey, American artist
1330 - Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (b. 1287)
1925 - Karl Flodin, composer, dies at 67
1992 - Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer (Jackie Kennedy), dies at 78
1999 - Gene Rayburn, American game show host (b. 1917)
2004 - Harry Danning, American baseball player (b. 1911)
2005 - David di Tommaso, French footballer (b. 1979)
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A woman designed a winter coat that homeless people could use to convert into a sleeping bag. While distributing the coats, a homeless woman said, “Your coats don’t matter, jobs matter. We need jobs, not coats.” The designer then went to employ only homeless single parents at her factory.
In 2006, Mark Zuckerberg turned down a $1 billion deal with Yahoo at the age of 22 saying:”I don’t know what I could do with the money. I’d just start another social networking site. I kind of like the one I already have.”
Only one Soviet male was awarded the “Mother Heroine Medal” (reserved for women who bore at least 10 children), because he adopted 12 children.
