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Category: Facts to Blow Your Mind

Weird Holiday Facts to Blow Your Mind

December 4, 2024 AnnMarie Kennon

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

Facts to Blow Your Mind: Let’s Talk Turkey

November 1, 2024 AnnMarie Kennon

The first Thanksgiving, held in 1621, lasted three days and was attended by Pilgrims and Wampanoag. It also featured a…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: fun facts, november facts, thanksgiving facts, veterans day facts

Facts to Blow Your Mind: H2O – M – G

July 1, 2024 AnnMarie Kennon

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

Juneteenth: America’s Freedom Celebration

June 3, 2024 AnnMarie Kennon

Juneteenth marks June 19, 1865, when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston to announce the end of slavery, more…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: gordon granger, jubilee day, juneteenth, Opal Lee

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

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