Did You Know? – July 2010

In 1903, 15-year-old Amanda Clement of Hudson, South Dakota, umpired a men’s baseball game?

In 1890, the first all-women baseball club, called the “Young Ladies Baseball Club No.1”, was formed?

Mt. Waiahleale, Hawaii, has an average rainfall of 460 inches a year?

Truman’s Law:  If you cannot convince them, confuse them?

The hourglass was invented for the purpose of limiting the length of sermons?

Albino frogs are rarer than human quintuplets?

The human ear can distinguish nearly 400,000 separate sounds?

First Law Of Debate: Never argue with a fool- people might not know the difference?

Octavia Guillen and Adriana Martinez of Mexico became engaged to be wed in 1902 but they weren’t married until 1969—67 years later?

It is illegal in Wilbur, WA, to ride an ugly horse?

Skuon, Cambodia is regionally renowned as the best source of fried tarantula?

‘The greatest danger facing the United States is not a military lag but a slump in personal and public integrity.’
–Robert J. McCracken

‘The closest you can get to your youth is to start repeating your follies.’
–Teresa Gonzales.

‘The two most beautiful words in the English language are:  “Check enclosed.”’
–Dorothy Parker

‘Spoiled kids soon become little stinkers.’
–Shirley Mooney

‘We can be Knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can’t be wise with other men’s wisdom.’
–Becki Harvey

‘There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.’
–Will Rogers

‘The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.’
–Teresa Gonzales