Did You Know? – December 2010

“Jingle Bells” was first written for Thanksgiving?

Oregon is the leading producer of Christmas trees?
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Did You Know? November 2010

The Manhatten Project which led to the Atomic  bomb began as a $6000 grant to build a nuclear reactor beneath the University of Chicago football field?

Wearing high-heeled shoes can shrink a woman’s calf muscles as much as 10%?
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Did You Know? – August 2010

In Moscow, Ohio, a man bulldozed his $350,000 home on February, 2010, when a bank claimed it as collateral for an outstanding debt?
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Did You Know – June 2010

Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps?

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =             12,345,678,987,654,321?
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Did You Know? – April 2010

• It’s against the law to sing out of tune in North Carolina?
• Pablo Diego Jose Franciscodo Paula  Juan Nepomuceno Cipriano Trinidad painted under his mother’s maiden name — Picasso? Read more

Did You Know? – March 2010

In Turkey, in the 16th and 17th centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death.

Poison oak and poison ivy are both members of the cashew family.
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Did You Know? – February 2010

A person who smokes one pack of cigarettes a day inhales a half-cup of tar a year?

Harvard University was first known as Cambridge?
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Did You Know? January 2010

O’Reily’s Law Of The Kitchen:  Cleanliness is next to impossible.

Leiberman’s Law:  Everybody lies; but it doesn’t matter, since nobody listens.

Denniston’s LAW:  vIRTUE IS ITS OWN PUNISHMENT.
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Did You Know? – December 2009

Falls City, Oregon, once sold potholes as Christmas presents “For people who have everything”, for $20. The recipient’s name was embossed on it?
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That’s the Rule – November 2009

Maggie May, a one-year old English yorkie owned by Teresa Gonzales of Longview, Wa., loves to have her teeth flossed each morning by her owner?
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