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841/ "Erin go bragh"
means "Ireland forever".
842/ The world's largest yo-yo
resides in the National Yo-Yo Museum in Chicago, California.
Named 'Big Yo", the 256 pound yoyo is an exact scale
replica of a Tom Kuhn "No Jive 3 in 1 YoYo". Fifty
inches tall and 31.5 inches wide, the yo-yo is made of California
sugar pine, baltic birch from the former USSR, and hardrock
maple. It was first launched in San Francisco on October 13th
1979.
843/ The first contraceptive
diaphragms, centuries ago, were citrus rinds ie half an orange
rind.
844/ The first female telephone
operator was Emma M. Nutt, who started working for the Telephone
Dispatch Company in Boston, on September 1st 1878. Prior to
that all operators were men.
845/ There is no one who does
not dream. Those who claim to have no dreams, laboratory tests
have determined, simply forget their dreams more easily than
others.
846/ A bushel of apples weighs
about 42 pounds.
847/ A recent Gallup poll
shows that 69 percent of Americans believe they will go somewhere
after death.
848/ A recent survey reveals
that one in four Americans 'believe in' Astrology, up from
18 percent in 1988. One third (33 percent) of those in the
18 to 29 year old age bracket believe, to some extent, that
horoscopes and their stars influence and predict events in
their lives. Only 18 percent of those 60 years or older put
much credence in Astronomy.
849/ A Gallup survey showed
that in the US, 8 percent of kissers kept their eyes open,
but more than 20 percent confessed to an occasional peek.
Forty-one percent said they experienced their first serious
smooch when they were 13, 14 or 15 years old. 36 percent between
the ages of 16 and 21. The most memorable kiss in a film was
in Gone with the Wind, according to 25 percent of those polled.
850/ A survey of 1,023 children
aged 10 to 13 showed the number who felt uncomfortable talking
with their parents nearly doubles when they turn 13.
851/ Over fifty billion aspirin
tablets are taken worldwide each year.
852/ In the US, Delaware,
Virginia and Michigan rank as the top three states for Ritalin
use, and most of the prescriptions are for elementary and
middle school age children. Doctors in these states prescribe
at least 33 grams for every 1,000 residents, 56 percent more
than the national average, according to figures compiled by
the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency.
853/ The average life span
of London residents in the middle of the 19th century was
27 years. For members of the working class that number dropped
to 22 years.
854/ It is estimated that
60 percent of home smoke detectors in use do not work because
they don't have a battery in them, or the battery has run
out.
855/ It is estimated that
there are 61,000 people airborne over the USA all the time.
856/ Artist Xavier Roberts
first designed his soon-to-be-famous Cabbage Patch Dolls in
1977 to help pay his way through university. They had soft
faces and were made by hand, as opposed to the hard-faced
mass market dolls, and were originally caled 'Little People'.
857/ Before the invention
of mass marketed haircare products, households were pretty
much of their own concocting family shampoos and conditioners.
This suggestion was published in 'The New England Economical
Housekeeper and Family Receipt Book' in 1847 - "Perhaps
the best of all shampoos is the yolk of an egg beaten up with
a pint of soft warm water. Apply at once and rinse off with
castille or other hard white soap.
858/ For a short time in 1967,
the American Typers Association invented a new punctuation
mark that was a combination of the question mark and an exclamation
point called an "interrobang". It was intended to
be used to express incredulity or disbelief. It never caught
on with the general public, and it faded away.
859/ Four Wheel Roller Skates
were invented by James L. Plimpton in 1863.
860/ Frederick Winthrop Thayer
of Massachusetts, and the Captain of the Harvard University
Baseball Club received a patent for his baseball catcher's
mask on February 12th 1878.
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