Did you know - - - - - --It takes almost 10 quarts of whole milk to make one pound of butter. --Christmas is the biggest candy-selling season in the U.S. Surprisingly, Easter is second, surpassing Valentines Day, Mothers Day, and Halloween. --American Airlines claims that in 1987 it saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from each of the salads served in first class. --In Russia, the Big Mac is called the Bolshoi Mak--bolshoi means big in Russian. --A person weighing 130 pounds would have to walk for 2 hours and 1 minute at a brisk pace to burn off the calories in a McDonalds Big Mac. He would have to walk for 3 hours and 26 minutes to burn off the calories in a Burger King Double Beef Whopper with cheese. --President Ford pardoned Iva DAquino (better known as Tokyo Rose) in 1977. She was the seductive-voiced Japanese radio propagandist during World War II. --Today in 1473, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was born. He revolutionized scientific thought with what came to be known as the Copernican Theory that placed the sun instead of Earth at the center of our planetary system. Galileo would gather evidence to support his theory in the 1600s. --Today in 1878, Thomas Edison patented the first phonograph. The first song that he recorded was Mary Had a Little Lamb. --Today in 1942, as a result of President FDRs executive order, some 110,000 Japanese-Americans living in coastal Pacific areas were placed in concentration camps in remote areas in Arizona, Arkansas, Utah, and 4 other states. The interned Japanese-Americans (two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens) lost an estimated $400 million in property. They were allowed to return to their homes on January 2, 1945. --Today in 1986, the first module of the Soviet space station Mir was launched, establishing the first long-term research station in space. I watch a lot of baseball on radio. (Gerald Ford) There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. (Lester Pourciau)
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