Did you know - - - - --Blood takes about 23 seconds to make one round trip of your body. --Men are 8 times more likely to be colorblind than women. --Yankee Doodle was composed in England as an anti-American tune. --The actor-comedian Stan Laurel was married eight times; however, he only had four wives. --Softball was originally called kitten ball. --Pope Adrian II (pope from 867-872) was the last married pope. He refused to renounce his marriage and his daughter, so his family lived in the Vatican with him. --John Wycliffe (1324-1384), an English theologian, was one of the first to challenge the authority of the Roman Catholic church. After Wycliffes death from natural causes, Pope Martin V ordered that Wycliffe be posthumously exhumed and burned as a heretic--in 1428--some 44 years after he had died. (Talk about holding a grudge!) --Great Britain is the only country to have been represented in all modern Olympic games--both summer and winter. --The toll charged when the 66,851-ton, 963-foot Queen Elizabeth II traveled through the Panama Canal in January 1980 was exactly $89,154.62. --Queen Victorias first act after her coronation in 1838, at age 18, was to have her bed moved from her mothers room to the very first room of her own. --Today in 1154, Adrian IV was elected pope, becoming the only Englishman to occupy the papal throne. --Today in 1991, Pan American World Airways, which was the principal international airline of the U.S. and which was credited with many innovations, ended operations. Overexposure to committee meetings can lead to a staff infection. (Dr. Mardy Grothe) I could never understand when to use lie and when to use lay, which is why nobody goes to bed in my novels. (Willie Snow Ethridge)
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