Baseball players who died on their birthdays:
- Bucky Harris, 81
- Gabby Hartnett, 72
- Bob Moose, 29
- Joe Tinker, 68
Trivia
Valentino’s Real Name
Rudolph Valentino’s real name was Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi di Valentina d’Antoguolla.
People Who Have Been Cremated
People who have been cremated:
- Neville Chamberlain
- Wyatt Earp
- Albert Einstein
- W.C. Fields
- Sigmund Freud
- Greta Garbo
- Adolf Hitler
- Henry James
- John Maynard Keynes
- Rudyard Kipling
- Timothy Leary
- Nelson Rockefeller
- Carl Sagan
- Dr. Seuss
- George Bernard Shaw
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- John Steinbeck
Polar Bears
There’s evidence of polar bears throughout the arctic. These three surprised the submarine U.S.S. Honolulu in 2003, only 280 miles from the North Pole.
Martian Sunset
A sunset on Mars. A day on the Red Planet is almost the same length as one on Earth: 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35.244 seconds.
Lightning and the Empire State Building
On average, the Empire State Building is struck by lightning 25 times each year.
During one storm it was struck 15 times in 15 minutes.
Only Children
Only children:
- Burt Bacharach
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Dick Cavett
- Van Cliburn
- Robert De Niro
- Clark Gable
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- William Randolph Hearst
- Lillian Hellman
- Elton John
- Vivien Leigh
- James Michener
- Rex Reed
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Frank Sinatra
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Roger Staubach
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Paul Verlaine
- Emile Zola
Trivium
All mammals have tongues.
Not the Sahara
The largest desert in the world is Antarctica.
Veteran Longevity
The last surviving American veteran of the …
- … American Revolutionary War, Daniel F. Bakeman, died in 1869 at age 109.
- … War of 1812, Hiram Cronk, died in 1905 at age 105.
- … Mexican-American War, Owen Thomas Edgar, died in 1929 at age 98.
- … Spanish-American War, Jones Morgan, died in 1993 at age 111.
The last surviving Union veteran of the American Civil War was Albert Woolson, who died in 1956 at age 109. Amazingly, the last surviving Confederate, John B. Salling, survived until 1959, when he died at age 113.