Did You know who's birthday is today, October 13?

Ashanti - singer
1970 Tisha Campbell - actress
1969 Nancy Kerrigan - figure skater
1962 Jerry Rice - NFL wide receiver
1962 Kelly Preston - actress, wife of actor John Travolta
1959 Marie Osmond - singer, TV hostess, sister of singer Donny Osmond
1952 Beverly Johnson - model
1950 Simon Nicol - guitarist, singer (Fairport Convention)
1948 Lacy J. Dalton - singer
1947 Sammy Hagar - singer (formerly of Van Halen, Montrose)
1946 Demond Wilson - actor (Sanford and Son)
1944 Robert Lamm - singer, keyboardist (Chicago)
1941 Paul Simon - singer, songwriter, guitarist (Simon and Garfunkel)
1939 Melinda Dillon - actress
1931 Eddie Mathews - baseball player, manager
1925 Margaret Thatcher - British Prime Minister
1925 Lenny Bruce - comedian
1924 Nipsey Russell - actor, comedian
1921 Lou Saban - football coach
1921 Yves Montand - actor
1917 Burr Tillstrom - puppeteer (Kukla, Fran and Ollie)
1915 Cornel Wilde - actor
1754 Molly Pitcher (Mary Ludwig) - heroine of the American Revolution

Did you know these trival facts?

The largest man-made lake in the U.S. is Lake Mead, created by Hoover Dam.

The poison arrow frogs of South and Central America are the most poisonous animals in the world.

A new born blue whale measures 20-26 feet (6.0 - 7.9 meters) long and weighs up to 6,614 pounds (3003 kg).

The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.

The Virginia opossum has a gestation period of only 12-13 days.

The Stegosaurus dinosaur measured up to 30 feet (9.1 meters) long but had a brain the size of a walnut.

The largest meteorite crater in the world is in Winslow, Arizona. It is 4,150 feet across and 150 feet deep.

The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.

Skylab, the first American space station, fell to the earth in thousands of pieces in 1979. Thankfully most over the ocean.

It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.

Did you know who's birthday is today, Oct 11?

Did you know who was born today:

1966 Luke Perry - actor
1962 Joan Cusack - actress
1961 Steve Young - NFL quarterback
1955 Norm Nixon - basketball player
1948 Daryl Hall - singer (Hall and Oates)
1939 Maria Bueno - tennis champ
1932 Dottie West - singer
1925 Elmore Leonard - author
1918 Jerome Robbins - director (Oscar® winner, 1961)
1906 Charles Revson - Revlon cosmetics founder
1887 Willie Hoppe - billiards champ
1884 Henry Heinz - Heinz catsup founder
1884 Eleanor Roosevelt - wife of 32nd US president Franklin D. Roosevelt

Did you know about these facts

10 Facts that you may not have known...

1) Did you know that there are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).

5) The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.

6) 100 years ago: The first virus was found in both plants and animals.

7) 90 years ago: The Grand Canyon became a national monument & Cellophane is invented.

8) 80 years ago: The food mixer and the domestic refrigerator were invented.

9) 70 years ago: The teletype and PVC (polyvinyl-chloride) were invented.

10) 60 years ago: Otto Hahn discovered nuclear fission by splitting uranium, Teflon was invented.

Did you know who's birthday is today, Oct 10?

Did you know who was born today:

1979 Mya - singer
1976 Bob Burnquist - skateboarder
1974 Dale Ernhardt, Jr. - NASCAR auto racer
1974 Mario Lopez - actor
1969 Brett Favre - NFL quarterback
1967 Mike Malinin - drummer (Goo Goo Dolls)
1961 Martin Kemp - bassist (Spandau Ballet)
1958 Tanya Tucker - singer
1956 Martina Navratilova - tennis champ
1955 David Lee Roth - singer (formerly of Van Halen)
1949 Jessica Harper - actress
1948 Cyril Neville - singer (The Neville Brothers)
1946 Ben Vereen - dancer, actor
1946 Pete Mahovlich - hockey player
1946 John Prine - singer, songwriter
1946 Charles Dance - actor
1937 Bruce Devlin - golf champ
1930 Harold Pinter - playwright
1926 Richard Jaeckel - actor
1924 James Clavell - author
1917 Thelonious Monk - jazz pianist
1908 Johnny Green - songwriter
1900 Helen Hayes - actress
1825 Paul Kruger - South African president, Boers leader
1813 Guiseppe Verdi - composer

Did you know who's birthday is today, Oct 9?

Born today:
1981 Zachery Ty Bryan - actor
1969 PJ Harvey - singer
1959 Michael Pare - actor
1958 Mike Singletary - football player
1955 Scott Bakula - actor (Star Trek: Enterprise)
1951 Robert Wuhl - actor
1950 Brian Downing - baseball player
1948 Jackson Browne - singer, songwriter
1944 John Entwistle - bassist (The Who)
1940 John Lennon - singer, songwriter (The Beatles, Plastic Ono Band)
1933 Orville Moody - golf champ
1914 Edward Andrews - actor
1903 Walter O'Malley - LA Dodgers owner
1891 Otto Schnering - Curtiss Candy Co. founder
1890 Aimee Semple McPherson - evangelist (Foursquare Gospel Church founder)

Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know ???

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seenin the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!(That explains a few mysteries....)
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves perside in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange,purple and silver.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into spacebecause passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it willinstantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??)
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film downso you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law whichstated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record playerfor automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannotsink into quicksand.
Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplinlook-alike contest.
An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a womanto take more than three steps backwards while dancing!
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the bookmost often stolen from public libraries.
The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
Thanks to Deborah for submitting this!!
And another via email --this comes by Suzie T....
In the 1400's a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have "the rule of thumb"
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Men can read smaller print then women can; women can hear better.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King DavidHearts - CharlemagneClubs -Alexander, the GreatDiamonds - Julius Caesar
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.