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Which Came First - The Chicken or the Egg?

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Did you know that today is.....

• Girls Write Now Day
• International Working Women's Day
• Middle Name Pride Day
• National Proof Reading Day
• National Peanut Cluster Day 
• Today is Nametag Day, a day for every adult to wear a nametag that says, "Hello, I'm ______", with your name written in the blank

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Did you know that today is....

National Peanut Butter Lover's Day

National Fruit Compote Day

National Pig Day 

World Compliment Day (PS...if you are reading the Fun Facts you are quite likely one of the smart ones) 

Plan a Solo Vacation Day

Refired, Not Retired, Day, a time for retirees to decide this is the beginning of "Life, Part II," and commit to making it an adventure.

Employee Appreciation Day 

National Horse Protection Day

Peace Corps Day

Dress in Blue Day

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Did you know that today is......

• Call Somebody "Boo Boo" Day, just to see what they call you
• Walking the Dog Day
• Spay Day highlighting the importance of saving animal lives by spaying or neutering
• International World Thinking Day, sponsored by Girl Guides and Girl Scouts worldwide
• National Margarita Day 
• Woolworth's Day
• Tomorrow is National Banana Bread Day

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Did you know that today is......

• Asteroid Flyby Day
• National Gumdrop Day 
• Single Awareness Day
• National Hippo Day 
• Stop and Smell Your Compost Pile Day, a time to snort away the winter blahs and think about spring.
• Thanks for a Great Valentine's Day Day.
• Maple Leaf Day, marking adoption of the new Canadian flag on this date in 1965.
• Susan B. Anthony Day, marking her birth in 1820 at Adams, Massachusetts, and recognizing her work for women's rights.

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Did you know that today is:

•  The first day of Black History Month: 
• Wear Red Day: Women all over the country today are showing their awareness of heart disease by wearing red. 
• Solo Diners Eat Out Week
• Tupperware Sculpting Day, a day to heat up at least one old Tupperware bowl or glass and sculpt it into something new and exciting.
• National Freedom Day 
• National Serpent Day
• Hula in the Coola Day
• Spunky Old Broads Day, a day for celebration for spunky ladies over 50.
• Bubble Gum Day. Children at many schools will donate 50 cents or more to a school charity to be allowed to chew bubble gum at school today. 
• Robinson Crusoe Day, a day to be adventurous and self-reliant.

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In 1984, Apple's Macintosh computer went on sale for $2,495. It was not until mid-1985 that sales began to take off and this computer began to replace the Apple II model. Steven Jobs himself took over the project, insisting that the computer should be not merely great but "insanely great." The Macintosh was introduced during the broadcast of the 1984 Super Bowl.

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Did you know that today is.....

• Winnie the Pooh Day
• Thesaurus Day
• International Fetish Day
• Peking Duck Day
• Today is Hair Dryer Appreciation Day. 
• UFO Day, marking the first reported sighting of a UFO in America by Pilgrims in Boston. The year was 1644. 
• National Sanctity of Human Life Day (Observed on Sunday

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40 to 45% of American adults make one or more resolution each year.

Among the top new years resolutions are resolutions about weight loss, exercise, and stopping smoking. Also popular are resolutions dealing better with money management / debt reduction.

The following information shows how many of these resolutions are maintained as time goes on:

- past the first week: 75%
- past 2 weeks: 71%
- after one month: 64%
- after 6 months: 46%

While a lot of people who make new years resolutions do break them, research shows that making resolutions is useful. People who explicitly make resolutions are 10 times more likely to attain their goals than people who don't explicitly make resolutions.

Did you make any New Years resolutions? We'd love to hear about, leave us a comment below or a comment on Facebook.

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Most of Santa’s reindeer have male-sounding names, such as Blitzer, Comet, and Cupid. However, male reindeers shed their antlers around Christmas, so the reindeer pulling Santa’s sleigh are likely not male, but female or castrati. Norwegian scientists have hypothesized that Rudolph’s red nose is probably the result of a parasitic infection of his respiratory system. The Germans made the first artificial Christmas trees out of dyed goose feathers. Each year more than 3 billion Christmas cards are sent in the U.S. alone. All the gifts in the Twelve Days of Christmas would equal 364 gifts. The “true love” mentioned in the song “Twelve Days of Christmas” does not refer to a romantic couple, but the Catholic Church’s code for God. The person who receives the gifts represents someone who has accepted that code. For example, the “partridge in a pear tree” represents Christ. The “two turtledoves” represent the Old and New Testaments. In A.D. 350, Pope Julius I, bishop of Rome, proclaimed December 25 the official celebration date for the birthday of Christ. According to the Guinness world records, the tallest Christmas tree ever cut was a 221-foot Douglas fir that was displayed in 1950 at the Northgate Shopping Center in Seattle, Washington. The traditional three colors of Christmas are green, red, and gold. Green has long been a symbol of life and rebirth; red symbolizes the blood of Christ, and gold represents light as well as wealth and royalty. According to data analyzed from Facebook posts, two weeks before Christmas is one of the two most popular times for couples to break up. However, Christmas Day is the least favorite day for breakups.

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Honey is the only food that does not spoil. There's no need to refrigerate it and it can be stored unopened, indefinitely, at room temperature in a dry cupboard. It was used in many ancient Egyptian medicines and is so well preserved that when some very ancient honey was found in the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs it was said to be still edible by scientists.

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For millions of people Black Friday is the time to do some serious Christmas shopping --even before the last of the Thanksgiving leftovers are gone! Black Black is the Friday after Thanksgiving, and it's one of the major shopping days of the year in the United States -falling anywhere between November 23 and 29. While it's not recognized as an official US holiday, many employees have the day off -except those working in retail.

The term “Black Friday” was coined in the 1960s to mark the kickoff to the Christmas shopping season. “Black” refers to stores moving from the “red” to the “black,” back when accounting records were kept by hand, and red ink indicated a loss, and black a profit. Ever since the start of the modern Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1924, the Friday after Thanksgiving has been known as the unofficial start to a bustling holiday shopping season.

In the 1960's, police in Philadelphia griped about the congested streets, clogged with motorists and pedestrians, calling it “Black Friday.” In a non-retail sense, it also describes a financial crisis of 1869: a stock market catastrophe set off by gold spectators who tried and failed to corner the gold market, causing the market to collapse and stocks to plummet.


As retailers began to realize they could draw big crowds by discounting prices, Black Friday became the day to shop, even better than those last minute Christmas sales. Some retailers put their items up for sale on the morning of Thanksgiving, or email online specials to consumers days or weeks before the actual event. The most shopped for items are electronics and popular toys, as these may be the most drastically discounted. However, prices are slashed on everything from home furnishings to apparel.

Black Friday is a long day, with many retailers opening up at 5 am or even earlier to hordes of people waiting anxiously outside the windows. There are numerous doorbuster deals and loss leaders – prices so low the store may not make a profit - to entice shoppers. Most large retailers post their Black Friday ad scans, coupons and offers online beforehand to give consumers time to find out about sales and plan their purchases. Other companies take a different approach, waiting until the last possible moment to release their Black Friday ads, hoping to create a buzz and keep customers eagerly checking back for an announcement.

More and more, consumers are choosing to shop online, not wanting to wait outside in the early morning chill with a crush of other shoppers or battle over the last most-wanted item. Often, many people show up for a small number of limited-time "door-buster" deals, such as large flat-screen televisions or laptops for a few hundred dollars. Since these coveted items sell out quickly, quite a few shoppers leave the store empty handed. The benefit of online shopping is that you will know right away if the MP3 player you want is out of stock, and can easily find another one without having to travel from store to store. Also, many online retailers have pre-Black Friday or special Thanksgiving sales, so you may not even have to wait until the big day to save. So, there you have it - the Black Friday history behind the best shopping day of the year!

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On November 5th 1935, Parker Brothers introduced the game Monopoly to the world

November 5th, 1959 the National Football league was formed with 8 teams: the Houston Oilers, New York Titans, Buffalo Bills, Boston Patriots, Los Angeles Chargers, Dallas Texans, Oakland Rangers, and Denver Broncos

November is World Kindness Month

On November 13th 1952 the first press-on fingernails were sold

November 17th is National Take A Hike Day

On November 22nd, 1957 Simon & Garfunkel performed on the “American Bandstand” Show as “Tom & Jerry”. Bet ya never knew that one?

November 18th, 1963 Bell Telephone Company introduced to the public the push button phone

The flower that represents November is the Chrysanthemum.

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• President Polk and President Harding were both born on November 2nd, but 70 years apart!
• The Saxons called November – “Blood Month”, because they sacrificed many animals to their gods in that month so legends say
• The one an only Winston Churchill, Prime Minster of England was born November 30.1874.
• World War I ended on the 11th day of the 11th month (November) at 11PM, in 1918
• The dictator Francisco Franco died November 20, 1975
• The infamous Berlin Wall began to come down on November 9, 1989
• The first women police officers began working in Britain on November 27th, 1914

 

  

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1. November is one of 4 months in the Gregorian Calendar that has 30 days
2. November comes from the Latin word root “novem”, which means nine. It was originally the 9th month in the Roman Calendar.
3. In Finland they call November “marraskuu” which translates as “month of the dead”
4. November is National Tobacco Awareness Month
5. November is National Beard Month
6. November 1st is celebrated in many Christian churches as All Saints Day
7. The birthstone for November in Topaz
8. Do you know which U S President was assassinated in November? John F. Kennedy

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“Halloween” is short for “Hallows’ Eve” or “Hallows’ Evening,” which was the evening before All Hallows’ (sanctified or holy) Day or Hallowmas on November 1. In an effort to convert pagans, the Christian church decided that Hallowmas or All Saints’ Day (November 1) and All Souls’ Day (November 2) should assimilate sacred pagan holidays that fell on or around October 31.

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Bacteria, the tiniest free-living cells, are so small that a single drop of liquid contains as many as 50 million of them.

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 Google uses an estimated 15 billion kwh of electricity per year, more than most countries. However, Google generates a lot of thier own power with their solar panels.

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Much of the life in the oceans, as on land, is invisible to the naked eye. For instance, if you’ve ever swallowed a milliliter of ocean water, know that you also gulped 1 million bacteria and 10 million viruses — give or take a few. No need to worry though, swimmers around the world swallow some ocean water during their ventures into the water, without ill effects
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The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.

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