There's a girl named Jacinda Cambray in Levittown, Pennsylvania, and she had her sweet 16 birthday party on Sunday night. And everything was going great . . . until it started raining. Not water, though. It started raining POOP. Apparently a plane was flying overhead and emptied out its waste . . . which showered [...]
1874 Levi Strauss began marketing blue jeans with copper rivets. Genius! 1916 Norman Rockwell’s first cover on The Saturday Evening Post appeared. 1927 Charles Lindbergh took off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris aboard his airplane, The Spirit of St. Louis. He would achieve the world's first non-stop transatlantic flight. The trip took 33 [...]
There's a new list of the ten best selling brands in the world. And three of them might surprise you. Here's the list . . . 1. Coca-Cola. 2. Colgate. 3. Maggi . . . a brand of instant soups and noodles by Nestle that's huge in the rest of the world, [...]
The biggest ranch in America-- stretcing over 510,000 acres in North Texas-- is for sale. For only $725 million. The ranch sits on about 796 square miles, making it a plot of land bigger than the island of Oahu.Realtors are hoping the Waggoner ranch will become the most expensive estate in the world, and hope [...]
1935 The National Football League adopted an annual college draft to begin in 1936. The first draft was held in Philadelphia 1962 Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of Happy Birthday for President Kennedy. His birthday isn't actually until May 29. He was at a fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden. 1974 Erno Rubik invented a [...]
Here's a list of films that famous actors and actresses turned down. They turned down roles because of scheduling and script conflicts. Many of the replacement actors went on to win Oscars and Golden Globes. Gwyneth Paltrow turned down Titanic. Meg Ryan turned down Pretty Woman. Hugh Jackman turned down James Bond. Sarah Michelle Gellar turned down [...]
Meghan Linsey- Blake Shelton's protegee on "The Voice Season 8" just put out her music video for "Change My Mind"...and it's fantastic! Whether she wins tonight or not, girl can SING!
The U.S. Department of Labor just released their stats on the DEADLIEST jobs over the last seven years. Here's the top 10 . . . 1. Fishermen, 132 deaths per 100,000 workers. 2. Loggers, 97 deaths per 100,000. 3. Aircraft pilots, 70 deaths per 100,000. 4. Extraction workers, including oil and gas, [...]
Here are some major signs that you are from the great Midwestern states!
1953 Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound! She piloted an F-86 Sabrejet over California at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour. 1980 Mt. Saint Helens erupted in Washington state. The volcanic blast was five hundred times more powerful than the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima. Steam and ash erupted more than eleven [...]
