Learning New Things Everyday December 2018

 

For those of you who are new to my blog, every day I try to learn something new and then write it down with the day I learned it and share it with you.

 

1^st The first President to recognize Hanukkah as a holiday was Jimmy Carter in 1976.

After this let’s build a house for a poor family. 

2^nd A Megamouth sharks have up to 50 rows of teeth but only first 3 are functal

3^rd The largest animal eye comes from the Colossal squid and can be up to 16” 

4^th in 1920’s the largest export of the nation of Chillie was salt Peter used as fertilizer.

5^th The ZIP code for Centralia PA 17921 was striped when the city was abandoned.

6^th There are more bodies in the Paris catacombs than there are people living in Paris.

7^th The Florida Everglades are the only place crocodiles and alligators live together.

8^th Some scientist feel that an iron dagger was found in King Tutt’s tomb came from a meteorite.

But is 9it Kryptonite 

9^th The original entrance fee to Disneyland was one dollar per person.

10^th Joan of Arc was probably not a peasant; her family is believed to owned 200 acers of farm land making her comfortably middle class.

11^th There are no wild kangaroos in New Zeeland

12^th Walt Disney’s children loved the Mary Poppins books, so he spent 20 years trying to get the movie rights.  

13^th John Lennon was once on a boat in the Bermuda Triangle during a storm where everyone else got sea sick and the captain had been at the wheel for 30 hours, so he piloted it to safety.

Imagine that 

14^th Ebay’s name comes from the Echo Bay Technology Group.

15^th the first movie to mention the Necronomicon and mention Cthulhu is The Haunted Place, whose title comes form an Edgar Allan Poe movie.

16^th Krampus the Christmas demon was created by Jesuit monks in the 16th century to be a character in Morality Plays.

Talk about a bad actor 

17^th Green Days original tour bus was a converted bookmobile that was changed into a tour bus by the drummer’s father.

Read so you won’t be an American Idiot! 

18^th Genghis Khan’s Granddaughter was the warrior princess Khutulun. Her father agreed that she would not have to marry anyone until her suitor could beat her in wrestling. We have no record that she ever got married.

19^th When Hitler visited occupied Paris, the Resistance cut the cables to the elevator on the Eiffel Tower forcing him to walk to the top.

20^th Danitra Vance was Saturday Night Live’s first black female regular cast member and their first openly lesbian one, suffered from dyslexia  so bad she couldn’t read cue cards.  

21^st Crusading journalist Roan farrow, is Mia farrows son, with Woody Allen but it has been hinted by his mother that he might be the Child of Frank Sinatra. 

Great journalist, awkward family reunions. 

22nd Switzerland is the only country to have a square flag, all others are rectangles.

23rd The definition of a hog is a pig that weight over 120 lbs.

24^th The difference between stuffing and dressing, is that stuffing is cooked inside the turkey and dressing is cooked outside it.

25th The Bicycle card company got permission to give playing cards to American POWs in German prisons during World War Two0 These cards if soaked in water revealed escape routes.

26^th St Apollonia is the patron Saint of dentists.

Open wide 

27^th Pineapple and ham pizza often called Hawaiian pizza was invented in Ontario Canada.

28^th The E in Chuck E Cheese’s name stands for Entertainment.

Or my middle name isn’t entertaiment

29^th Dogs like humans have two sets of teeth. They lose their baby teeth then get their permeant ones.

30^th Rogue one a Star Wars Story is the first Star Wars movie that doesn’t mention the word Skywalker in it.

31^st If a movie wins every Oscar it is nominated for it is called a perfect score