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Category: Facts to Blow Your Mind

Not Just Pretty Faces

May 4, 2022 AnnMarie Kennon Leave a comment

Women own 36 percent of small businesses worldwide. Their aggregate revenue is roughly $1.9 trillion. The oldest mother is Rajo…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: facts about mothers, facts about women, weird facts

You Must Be KID-ding Me

March 1, 2022 AnnMarie Kennon Leave a comment

Play-Doh started out as a wallpaper cleaner before the head of the struggling company realized the non-toxic material made a…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: facts to blow your mind

Facts to Blow Your Mind • Take Me Out…

June 30, 2021 AnnMarie Kennon Leave a comment

In 1963, major league baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, “They’ll put a man on the moon before I hit a…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: babe ruth, baseball, bobby richardson, jackie mitchell, jackie robinson, john dillinger

Facts to Blow Your Mind • A Spring Bouquet

April 1, 2021 AnnMarie Kennon Leave a comment

Donald Weder holds the patent for plastic Easter eggs and shredded grass. He also holds a total of 1,411 other…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: april fools, spring facts, weird facts

Mad About March

February 28, 2021 AnnMarie Kennon Leave a comment

The last time the NCAA held its big basketball tournament (2019), workers spending company time picking and betting on brackets…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: julius caesar, march madness, pi-lish, st patricks day food

Facts to Blow Your Mind: Heartfelt

January 29, 2021 AnnMarie Kennon Leave a comment

Valentinus is not only the Patron Saint of sweethearts and love, he is also the go-to guy for bee keepers,…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: fun facts, ruby chocolate, valentines facts, weird facts

Facts to Blow Your Mind: Deep Thoughts

January 1, 2021 AnnMarie Kennon Leave a comment

More people have been on the Moon than on the bottom of the deepest point in our deepest ocean. There…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: weird facts

Sleigh What?

November 30, 2020 AnnMarie Kennon Leave a comment

In Germany, Poland, and Ukraine, finding a spider or web on a Christmas tree is good luck. According to one…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: christmas facts, christmas trivia, holiday trivia

Facts to Blow Your Mind: Government & History

October 2, 2020 AnnMarie Kennon Leave a comment

In 1952, Albert Einstein was offered the position of the second President of Israel. He declined. In the Great Fire…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: einstein, gaius dioclese, jackie mitchell, john hume, key west

Facts to Blow Your Mind • Lifestyles

September 4, 2020 AnnMarie Kennon Leave a comment

November 2, 2000 was the last day that humans all lived together on planet Earth. Since that day there has…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: chess, loch ness monster, space station

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