Fabulous Facts & Timeless Trivia

Sunday, January 24, 2014

The 24 day of the year

341 days left to go 

THIS WEEK IS

• National CRNA (Cerfified Registered Nurse Anesthetists)
• Clean Out Your Inbox Week
• Natinal School Choice Week
• Tax Identity Theft Week
• National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Week
• National Medical Group Practice Week

TODAY IS

• National Peanut Butter Day
• Belly Laugh Day
• Beer Can Day
• National Compliment Day
• Talk Like A Grizzled Prospector Day

ON THIS DATE...
41: Roman Emperor Caligula, known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. The Guard then proclaims Caligula's uncle Claudius as Emperor
1438: The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV.
1742" Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1835" Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, stage a revolt, which is instrumental in ending slavery there 50 years later.
1848: James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in northern California, a discovery that led to the gold rush of '49.
1857: The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first fully-fledged university in south Asia.
1888: the typewriter ribbon was patented by Jacob L. Wortman. 
1899: Humphrey O'Sullivan patented the rubber heel.  
1908: the first Boy Scout troop was organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.  
1922: the Eskimo Pie was patented. 
1935: the canned beer was put on sale by the Krueger Brewing Company. 
1936: Benny Goodman and his orchestra recorded the hit "Stompin' at the Savoy." 
1940: Ronald Reagan married actress Jane Wyman.  The two later divorced.  
1964: CBS acquired the rights to broadcast National Football League games. 
1965: former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill died at the age of 90. 
1971: the National Football Conference defeated the American Football Conference 27-to-six in the first Pro Bowl. 
1973: "Little" Donny Osmond received a gold record for his album "Too Young." 
1975: legendary "Three Stooges" member Larry Fine died at the age of 72. 
1984: Apple Computer Incorporated unveiled it new Macintosh personal computer. 
1985: Penny Harrington became the first woman police chief of a major city.  She took over as head of the Portland, Oregon, Police Department. 
1987: Billy Vera and The Beaters topped the pop singles chart with "At This Moment."  The song was recorded 1981: but gained popularity after being heard on the sitcom "Family Ties." 
1989: serial killer Ted Bundy was put to death in Florida's electric chair. 
1993: retired Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall died at the age of 84.  Marshall was the first black justice to sit on the Supreme Court bench.  
1995: the prosecution gave its opening arguments at O.J. Simpson's murder trial. 
1997: Publix Super Markets, accused of relegating women to dead-end, low-paying jobs, agreed to pay $81.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit. 
1999: the International Olympic Committee voted to expel six IOC members in the wake of charges that committee members had accepted money and other compensation from officials whose cities were bidding to host the Olympic games. 
2000: The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Missouri law that limited the contributions that individuals could donate to a candidate during a single election. 
2003: The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
2006: Disney agrees to purchase Pixar for $7.4 billion.



QUICK TRIVIA 

National Peanut Butter Day (Taken from Link)

By the Numbers

• It takes about 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.
• There are enough peanuts in one acre to make 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches. Find out how peanuts grow.
• By law, any product labeled “peanut butter” in the United States must be at least 90 percent peanuts.
• The world’s largest peanut butter factory churns out 250,000 jars of the tasty treat every day.
• Four of the top 10 candy bars manufactured in the USA contain peanuts or peanut butter.
• Peanuts account for two-thirds of all snack nuts consumed in the USA.
• Peanuts contribute more than $4 billion to the USA economy each year.
• Americans spend almost $800 million a year on peanut butter.
• The average peanut farm is 100 acres.
• Peanut butter/peanut paste is the leading use of peanuts produced in the U.S. (1/2); followed by snack nuts and in-shells (1/4); and, candy and confections (1/4).
• Peanuts are the #1 snack nut consumed in the U.S., accounting for two-thirds of the snack nut market.

Consumption Facts

• The average American consumes more than six pounds of peanuts and peanut butter products each year.
• The average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before he/she graduates high school. Click here for kid’s recipes.
• Americans consume on average over 1.5 billion pounds of peanut butter and peanut products each year.
• Peanut butter is consumed in 90 percent of USA households.
• Americans eat enough peanut butter in a year to make more than 10 billion peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
• The amount of peanut butter eaten in a year could wrap the earth in a ribbon of 18-ounce peanut butter jars one and one-third times.

WORD OF THE DAY

Fawn
[fawn] Verb
To exhibit affection or attempt to please, as a dog does by wagging its tail, whining, or cringing.
To seek favor or attention by flattery and obsequious behavior

"In order to get a doggy treat, Pixie, our adorable dog, does not need to fawn"



WORD FROM THE WORD 

How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? —Romans 10:14

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