- From the 1500's to the 1700's, tobacco was prescribed by doctors to treat a variety of ailments including headaches, toothaches, arthritis and bad breath.
- From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
- Fulgurite is formed when lightning strikes sand.
- Gaetano Albert "Guy" Lombardo did the first New Year's Eve broadcast of "Auld Lang Syne," from the Roosevelt Grill in New York City in 1929/1930.
- Garry Chapman scored 17 runs off a single delivery (all run with no overthrow) in a game of cricket on 13 October 1990. (he hit the ball into a patch of 10 inch high grass)
- George Bernard Shaw refused an Oscar in 1938, for the screenplay Pygmalion.
- George de Mestral invented velcro, after getting burrs stuck to his pants.
- George Harrison, with "My Sweet Lord," was the first Beatle to have a Number 1 hit single following the group's breakup.
- George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
- Gerald Ford, George Bush, Tommy Lasorda, Ted Koppel, John F. Kennedy Jr. and Bill Clinton are all left handed.
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