Fact Of The Day

In Toronto, Canada, a small company has developed vegan leather made from apple peels that are recycled from the juicing industry.

Source: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/fashion-designers-replace-plastic-based-vegan-leather-with-apple-fabric/

 

Born on this date -

Anthony Eden
George H.W. Bush
Anne Frank

 

Mel Blanc, best known for voicing the various Warner Brothers cartoon characters of the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series, was also the original voice of Woody Woodpecker, a Walter Lantz character.

 

Born On This Date -

Martha Washington
Basil Rathbone
Red Grange
John Nash (Subject of A Beautiful Mind)
Tim Allen
Ally Sheedy
Ashley and Mary Kate Olsen

 

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From Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

chocolate, tomato, avocado and chipotle are words that come from the language of the Aztecs.

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If you're talking about the Jefferson estate in Virginia, it's "Mon ti CHELL o", but if you're talking about the village in New York, it's "Mon ti SELL o".

If you're talking about the city in Kentucky, it's "Loo eey vill" (or "Looul-ville"), but if you're talking about the town in Nebraska, it's "Loo iss vill".

 

Born on this date -

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Che Guevara
A person who lives in a famous house in Washington, D.C.
George O'Dowd (Boy George)
Steffi Graf
Yasmine Bleeth

 

The first stopwatch used for the opening of the CBS television program 60 Minutes was owned by director Arthur Bloom, filmed with the tick-tock soundtrack and used for the third episode of the program on October 22, 1968. Producer Don Hewitt’s idea for "60 minutes of reality" came to life when Bloom filmed his Minerva stopwatch. The concept worked well and has been used to this day.

 

The 6 quarts of blood in the human body circulates through the body three times every minute. In one day, the blood travels a total ~12,000 miles – that’s nearly half the circumference of Earth.

 

Born on this date -

Sam Giancana
Erroll Garner
Mario Cuomo
Waylon Jennings
Harry Nilsson
Dusty Baker
Wade Boggs
Helen Hunt
Courtney Cox
O'Shea Jackson (Ice Cube)
Leah Remini
Neil Patrick Harris

 

The 1980 REO Speedwagon hit tune Take It On The Run was originally titled Don't Let Me Down, but after the line "You’re under the gun so you take it on the run" was added, it was almost a no-brainer as to retitling the song.

Bonus FOTD: The official REO video of Take It On The Run was originally scheduled to be included in the very first hour of MTV's debut in August of 1981. However, a technical glitch occurred about 10 seconds into the airing of the video, cutting it off, and it was not re-aired until a much later segment.

 

Born on this date -

Adam Smith
Old Tom Morris
Geronimo
Stan Laurel
Jack Albertson
Katharine Graham
Phil Mickelson
Tupac Shakur

 

The name "Appalachian" was first applied to the mountains and areas now known by that name by Spanish map makers in the 1540s, from the reports of explorer Hernando deSoto's expedition to the new world. DeSoto's crew picked up the name from the Native Americans in the area.

 

Born on this date -

Igor Stravinsky
Ralph Bellamy
Red Foley
John Hersey
Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch
Newt Gingrich
Barry Manilow
Joe Piscopo
Will Forte
Venus Williams

 

OMG, that's a name I have not heard for decades. I'm not a CW fan, but I distinctly remember my parents (who were not really CW fans either) having a 78 single of Red Foley and Alabama Jubilee when I was very young. (There I go admitting my real age again, as in admitting to remember 78 singles.)

 

Born on this date -

George Mallory (Precedent of Edmund Hilary on Mt. Everest)
E.G. Marshall
Sammy Cahn (Cohen)
Red Adair
Richard Boone
George Mikan
Lou Brock
Paul McCartney
Roger Ebert
Isabella Rossellini
Sandy Alomar
Martin St. Louis
Blake Shelton

 

Dame Vera Lynn has passed at age 103. Famous for many songs, the I one that I always remember was "We'll Meet Again" at the end of Dr. Strangelove when all the A-bombs start going off.

 

The Polaroid Corporation is best known for instant cameras and film, but its earlier claim to (highly classified at the time) fame was the Vectograph, which used polarizing filters to reveal camouflaged enemy activity from aerial photographs in WW II. The lead developer on the Vectograph project was Joseph Mahler, first cousin of composer Gustav Mahler.

 

Talk about product placement...
In every scene of Fight Club, there is a Starbucks coffee cup.

 

Not every scene, but Game Of Thrones is famous for that. Unintentional in GOT’s case.