In the spirit of C.A.N.I. (Continuous And Never-ending Improvement), here are this week’s new facts—one for each day of your coming week. Pass them on to others to keep the spirit alive or invite your friends and family to visit our blog where they can also view previous entries.
- The oldest moon material brought back to earth by the Apollo crews has been soil-dated to 4.7 billion years of age.
- A rainfall of one inch over one acre of ground is equivalent to 27,143 gallons of water.
- To empty the Pacific Ocean, you would have to fill a tank 11 miles long by 1 mile wide by 1 mile deep every day for 44 years.
- Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of the Perry Mason mysteries, was the world’s fastest novelist. He dictated up to 10,000 words a day to several secretaries and worked on as many as seven different books simultaneously. He turned out 140 novels during his lifetime (81 years).
- The state of Ohio was the birthplace of seven U.S. presidents: Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Harrison, McKinley, Taft, and Harding.
- “Mind your P’s and Q’s” is an Old English saying that refers to watching one’s pints and quarts (a remark a wife might have made to her husband as he went off to his favorite pub).
- Before SOS (Save Our Ship), the distress signal was CQD (Come Quick Danger). The first ship to use SOS was the Titanic on the night she sank.
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