Monday, November 28, 2011

TRIVIA BITS

 

  • 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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