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Category: Facts to Blow Your Mind

The Land of the Free… and unusual.

June 30, 2022 AnnMarie Kennon

Ben Franklin actually proposed an image of Moses—not a wild turkey—to be the emblemof America. According to his notes, Franklin…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind

Measures of Men

May 31, 2022 AnnMarie Kennon

Sonora Dodd (1882-1978) from Spokane, Washington, first suggested a “Father’s Day” in 1909 after listening to a Mother’s Day sermon.…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: facts about dads, facts about men, fathers day

Not Just Pretty Faces

May 4, 2022 AnnMarie Kennon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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