On this day in history, November 30th… 1934 : 4472 Flying Scotsman, a steam locomotive built in 1923 as a long-distance express train for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), became the first to officially exceed 100mph. In 1928, the train which featured a new version of the large eight-wheel tender which held 9 tons of coal, was first inaugurated and set to travel the 392 […]
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Text Version: Considered one of the nation’s smallest towns, Buford is located in southeastern Wyoming between Cheyenne and Laramie on the Interstate 80 and consists of 10 acres with a convenience store, gas station, and modular home. The town was first founded during the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad in Wyoming and at one point boasted a population of about […]
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Text Version: You’ve probably heard about the 3 wise men who visited Jesus, just after his birth. However, it was Bible scholars who came up with the number 3. Nowhere in the Bible does specify the number of wise men who came to visit Jesus. The scholars came up with 3 because of the number of gifts that were given […]
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On this day in history, November 29th… 1961 : Enos the chimpanzee was launched into space, becoming the second chimp to travel to space and the first to orbit the Earth. Enos, along with many other chimps such as “Ham”, the first chimp to be launched into space, were trained as part of Project Mercury, which was the first manned […]
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Text Version: The Tootsie Roll was invented by Leo Hirschfeld in 1896. He named the candy after his daughter’s nickname, Clara “Tootsie” Hirschfeld. During World War II, the Tootsie Roll candy was added to every soldier’s field rations, because the candy could hold up in a variety of weather conditions. The Tootsie roll was also the first one cent candy […]
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Text Version: The voice behind the Jolly Green Giant’s “Ho, Ho, Ho” in the commercials for General Mills is Elmer Dresslar Jr. He was born on March 25, 1925 and died October 16, 2005. Along with being a voice actor and vocalist, Dresslar Jr. was also a jazz singer in “The Singers Unlimited”. He also recorded several other jingles for […]
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On this day in history, November 28th… 1582 : William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, 8 years his senior. It was thought that since he was just 18 at the time and she was 26 and 3 months pregnant with his child that there was some pressure for them to get married. However, there is no evidence to support that. Six months after […]
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Text Version: The call sign “Air Force One” was first used when Dwight D. Eisenhower was in office in 1953. There was an incident during one of President Eisenhower’s flights where the aircraft he was on entered the same airspace as another aircraft with the same call sign (one was Eastern Airlines 8610, the other was Air Force 8610). In […]
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Text Version: The number 4 is the only number in which the number of the letters used to spell the number FOUR are the same as the meaning of its name.
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On this day in history, November 27th… 1095: A Crusade was launched by Pope Urban II, the first of seven major military campaigns fought over two centuries. The Emperor Alexios I Komnenos of the Byzantine Empire appealed to the Pope and requested the help of western volunteers to repel the invading Seljuq Turks from Anatolia. In response to his plea and taking it as an […]
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Text Version: Just three months after his death, Charlie Chaplin’s body was stolen on Christmas day in 1977, by two mechanics. They thought they could get money from his family in exchange for his body. However, the two grave robbers were captured and eleven weeks later and Chaplin’s body was recovered. To stop this from happening again, Chaplin was buried […]
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Text Version: We all know George Armstrong Custer as “General Custer”. However, he was only a General for a brief period after being given a field promotion at the age of 23 to “Brigadier General” from “Captain”, shortly before the battle of Gettysburg. Needless to say from the timing of the promotion, he didn’t keep this rank long; after the […]
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Text Version: If you were to go to Australia and get a craving for food from Burger King, you’ll have to go to a fast food chain called “Hungry Jack’s”. This is because, when Burger King first decided to expand their franchise to Australia, they found out that there was already a food chain there called “Burger King”. This forced […]
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