This idea came from Wendy over at Hammermarks where she posted 40 fun facts for her 40th birthday.
Since today is MY birthday and this is a biggie, I have posted quite a few fun facts to celebrate mine. How old am I?? Well you will have to read them all to figure that out.
Since today is MY birthday and this is a biggie, I have posted quite a few fun facts to celebrate mine. How old am I?? Well you will have to read them all to figure that out.
- The earliest record of an eclipse was recorded way back in 3340 on this date. I am not that old and I wonder if this is adjusted for the corrections made in the calendar (Julian/Gregorian) back in 1582.
- Billy Idol, English singer-songwriter and actor and I are the same age. Are we long lost twins??
- Winston Churchill, English colonel, journalist, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate was born on this day.
- 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris – In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
- 1900 Oscar Wilde, Irish essayist, novelist, playwright and poet died
- 1982 Michael Jackson's second solo album, Thriller is released worldwide.
- 1940 – Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz.
- November 30 is the 334th day of the year (335th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 31 days remaining until the end of the year.
- Krypton is not the planet where Superman was born it is actually an element here on earth and should not be confused with kryptonite.
- Neodymium is a chemical element with symbol Nd and atomic number 60. It is a soft silvery metal that tarnishes in air. Neodymium was discovered in 1885 by the Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach.
- Pinocchio is Italian for “pine head.”
- Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a ‘Friday the 13th’.
- A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why
- The word Pennsylvania is misspelled on the Liberty Bell.
- Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
- The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
- All the swans in England are property of the Queen.
- The largest U.S. state (Alaska, 665,384 square miles) is 431 times bigger than the smallest (Rhode Island, 1,544 square miles).
- Sonny Bono is the only member of the United States Congress to ever have a number one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 music chart.
- Over 2,500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
- Multiply the last fun fact by 3 and you have my age as of today!!
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