Trivia For You Tuesday January 12, 2010 |
Benjamin Franklin had seven sisters and nine brothers. He was the fifteenth child and youngest son. |
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The first president to appear on television was Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was seen by U.S. viewers at the opening of the New York World's Fair on April 30, 1939. |
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Long before Detroit became renowned for the production of automobiles, the city had earned a national reputation for the manufacturing of cigars and chewing tobacco. Tobacco companies were among the city's leading employers at the turn of the twentieth century, employing more than 10,000 people. In the mid-1920s, it was estimated that 210 million cigars and 14 million pounds of chewing tobacco were produced in Detroit each year. |
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The fortune cookie was invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodlemaker. |
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Up to 20,000 pounds of pressure per square inch may be absorbed by a pole vaulter on the joints of his tubular thigh bones when he lands. |
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