First Lt W.T. Fitzsimmon was the first American killed by a bomb in WWI.
This always pops in my mind as random facts. My 8th grade social studies teacher made us memorize it, and he did it as a was to prove you could memorize anything. And fuck it if he wasn’t right.
She is the mother of The Monkees band member Mike Nesmith.
Also, i just aged myself big time.
Another favorite mom fact.
Judith Love Cohen danced with the New York Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company, wrote children’s books and worked as an engineer in the NASA space program, where she helped develop the system that saved the lives of the Apollo 13 astronauts. She was trying to solve a tough problem when she went into labor. She continued to work on it and called her boss from the hospital to let him know when she solved it.
Post by starburst604 on Jul 1, 2024 8:04:00 GMT -5
Because this came up yesterday when it came on the radio in the car:
The 90’s song Don’t Turn Around by Ace of Base is a cover song.
The original was by Tina Turner. I randomly found that out last year and it blew my mind, and none of the other 3 people in the car with me yesterday knew that either when I told them.
The program where NORAD tracks Santa on Christmas Eve all started because of a typo - the Sears store in Colorado Springs was going to do a hotline for kids to call Santa but what was printed in the paper was the number to one of the critical phones in NORAD. Thanks to an incredibly kind man (Col. Harry Shoup), NORAD leaned into the idea and his team started answering calls as they "tracked" Santa. His kids talked to Story Corps about it - www.npr.org/2014/12/19/371647099/norads-santa-tracker-began-with-a-typo-and-a-good-sport.
President John Tyler, who took office in 1841, still has one living grandson.
Ha! I google him every so often to see if he is still alive. I know it's due to old men having babies with younger women, but still cool to say your Grandpa was not only President, but was born in 1793!
President John Tyler, who took office in 1841, still has one living grandson.
Ha! I google him every so often to see if he is still alive. I know it's due to old men having babies with younger women, but still cool to say your Grandpa was not only President, but was born in 1793!
Astrocartography is a subgenre of astrology that is supposed to be able to tell you want areas of the world you'll be happiest and most successful in based on when and where you were born.
President John Tyler, who took office in 1841, still has one living grandson.
Ha! I google him every so often to see if he is still alive. I know it's due to old men having babies with younger women, but still cool to say your Grandpa was not only President, but was born in 1793!
Ha! I google him every so often to see if he is still alive. I know it's due to old men having babies with younger women, but still cool to say your Grandpa was not only President, but was born in 1793!
Okay, this one blows my mind!!
That man had 15 children — last one was born in his 70s. No other president, quoth the TikTok song, has matched his freak.