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William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-14-15
Bastille Day did not became a national holiday in France until 1880. The oldest military parade in Europe is held in Paris on it. France’s national bird is a chicken. Really.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-13-15
Camels have three eyelids.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-11-15
Chimpanzees eat children, it has been reported. The animals apparently get drunk off of alcohol snatched from rural brewing operations and mistake the children for the red colobus monkey that is one of their favorite meals.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-10-15
The first successful appendectomy was performed in Iowa in 1885.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-9-15
Rain barrels are illegal in Colorado.
Actress Farrah Fawcett inspired Midnight Train to Georgia. The song’s writer Jim Weatherly called his friend Lee Majors who was then dating Farrah and it was she who answered the phone. As they talked, she mentioned she was taking “the midnight plane to Houston” to visit her mother. Inspiration came. Weatherly wrote “Midnight Plane to Houston” and sent it to a producer. The producer demanded the mode of transportation be change to train and that the destination be Georgia. They were the only changes made to the song.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-7-15
The German gunboat Jaguar was the first naval vessel to ever be attacked by a carrier based airplane. It was the Japanese that did the attacking. It happened during World War I.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-6-15
Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven was inspired by Charles Dickens.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-4-15
The glass armonica was an instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin. Mozart wrote an adagio for it.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-2-15
Enterprise Rent-A-Car is named after the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise upon which company founder Jack Taylor served during World War II.
If only his name was Jame T. Kirk.