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Lotte Lenya named in the American version of “Mack the Knife” was the wife of composer Kurt Weill who co-wrote The Threepenny Opera from which the song comes. Lotte is also known for playing the evil Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia With Love. Suky Tawdry, Lucy Brown et al were characters in the play.
A giraffe’s tongue is 20 inches long. Yes Anthony, that means they can clean their own ear with it.
4G 5G smartphones — Your smartphone is 4G? What does that mean? The “G” stands for generation.
The first generation or 1G were the analog cellphones of 1983. 2G was digital and allowed for texting. 3G allows for internet access and 4G allows for wireless broadband connections.
5G is expected to come out next year and be between 10 and 100 times as fast as 4G.
And LTE? That stands for “long-term evolution.’
As of 2010 there were 5 billion mobile cellular subscriptions in the world. The Earth’s population is about 7 billion.
Honiara is a city with a population of 64,000 and is the capital of the nation known as the Solomon Islands. It is built around an old Japanese airstrip on the island of Guadalcanal they called Runga Point although it was spelled with an L — really.
The United States took it from them in 1942 and renamed it Henderson Field. In February of the next year they secured the island and turned it into a major base with a sophisticated infrastructure.
And that infrastructure would become the national capital Honiara. The city’s international airport is actually at the site of Henderson Field.
The hottest pepper in the world is the Carolina Reaper with a Scoville scale measurement of 2.2 million. It is about 20 times as a hot as an habanero, which was the world’s hottest back in 1999.
It is 2,000 times hotter than a jalapeno.
So where did Abraham Lincoln keep his bankbook? In his stovepipe hat. Really.
Dueling US Navy — Dueling was a serious problem in the U.S Navy back in the day. Between 1798 and the Civil War it lost two-thirds as many officers to it as to combat at sea.
John Dunlop did not invent the pneumatic tire for a car, but for his son’s tricycle.
45 percent of all the golf courses in the world are in the United States.
Lonesome Dove was first written by Larry McMurtry in 1972 as a screeplay. It called for W.F. Call to be played by John Wayne, Agustus McCrae to be played by Jimmy Stewart, and Henry Fonda to play Jake Spoon. It didn’t work out. Maybe it was for the best.