Today I Learned....PartII

[Augie]

  On 9/27/2018 at 8:58 PM, /dev/null said:

Today I learned there is a Senator from Rhode Island named Sheldon Whitehouse

 

That makes him Senator Whitehouse.  Greatest political name ever

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And being from Rhode Island, there’s a decent chance Senator Whitehouse will go to the Big House. 

[row_33]

  On 9/28/2018 at 1:04 PM, Canadian Bills Fan said:

TIL of Lucy, a chimpanzee who was raised to believe she was human. She learned to sign over 250 words and some of her hobbies included drinking gin, browsing Playgirl magazines, and masturbating using a vacuum cleaner.

 

 

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more productive than 90% of millenials?

 

[Canadian Bills Fan]

TIL that Joe DiMaggio was so devastated after Marilyn Monroe's death that he had a half-dozen red roses delivered three times a week to her crypt for 20 years, never married again and his last words were: "I'll finally get to see Marilyn."

 

 

[Cripple Creek]

  On 9/7/2018 at 12:46 AM, Royale with Cheese said:

 

It could good or it could be a cat-astrophe.

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Way to hijack CBF's fine thread.

[Mr Info]

TIL The most misused SSN of all time was (078-05-1120). In 1938, wallet manufacturer the E. H. Ferree company in Lockport, New York decided to promote its product by showing how a Social Security card would fit into its wallets. A sample card, used for display purposes, was inserted in each wallet. Company Vice President and Treasurer Douglas Patterson thought it would be a clever idea to use the actual SSN of his secretary, Mrs. Hilda Schrader Whitcher.

The wallet was sold by Woolworth stores and other department stores all over the country. Even though the card was only half the size of a real card, was printed all in red, and had the word "specimen" written across the face, many purchasers of the wallet adopted the SSN as their own. In the peak year of 1943, 5,755 people were using Hilda's number. SSA acted to eliminate the problem by voiding the number and publicizing that it was incorrect to use it. (Mrs. Whitcher was given a new number.) However, the number continued to be used for many years. In all, over 40,000 people reported this as their SSN. As late as 1977, 12 people were found to still be using the SSN "issued by Woolworth."

 

https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/misused.html

[snafu]

  On 10/2/2018 at 10:46 PM, Mr Info said:

TIL The most misused SSN of all time was (078-05-1120). In 1938, wallet manufacturer the E. H. Ferree company in Lockport, New York decided to promote its product by showing how a Social Security card would fit into its wallets. A sample card, used for display purposes, was inserted in each wallet. Company Vice President and Treasurer Douglas Patterson thought it would be a clever idea to use the actual SSN of his secretary, Mrs. Hilda Schrader Whitcher.

The wallet was sold by Woolworth stores and other department stores all over the country. Even though the card was only half the size of a real card, was printed all in red, and had the word "specimen" written across the face, many purchasers of the wallet adopted the SSN as their own. In the peak year of 1943, 5,755 people were using Hilda's number. SSA acted to eliminate the problem by voiding the number and publicizing that it was incorrect to use it. (Mrs. Whitcher was given a new number.) However, the number continued to be used for many years. In all, over 40,000 people reported this as their SSN. As late as 1977, 12 people were found to still be using the SSN "issued by Woolworth."

 

https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/misused.html

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Imagine Hilda's surprise when she retired and got her first SS monthly benefit check for $50,000. I hope she thanked her boss.

[Canadian Bills Fan]

TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger's parents used to beat him because they thought he was gay since his bedroom walls were covered with posters of men instead of women.

 

 

[Greybeard]

  On 10/3/2018 at 1:25 PM, Canadian Bills Fan said:

TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger's parents used to beat him because they thought he was gay since his bedroom walls were covered with posters of men instead of women.

 

 

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           They wouldn't have had to do that if they had a house keeper.

[Canadian Bills Fan]

TIL about 'extreme commuters', who find it cheaper to take a flight to San Francisco than to live there.

 

 

[Canadian Bills Fan]

TIL that a 12 year old whisky will always remain a 12 year old whisky as it does not mature in the glass bottle.

 

 

[Keukasmallies]

  On 10/5/2018 at 5:30 PM, Canadian Bills Fan said:

TIL that a 12 year old whisky will always remain a 12 year old whisky as it does not mature in the glass bottle.

 

 

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Damn, I hope that's not true.  When my son graduated from high school, his baseball coach (and personal friend of mine) gave me a bottle of whiskey; it remains unopened to this day.  Son is now fifty-eight, the coach passed away a number of years ago, etc.; the bottle remains unopened....

[Canadian Bills Fan]

TIL, Calvin Klein's cologne 'Obsession' can draw big cats like Tigers, Jaguars etc from as far as half a mile, who then proceed to taking long sniffs and cuddling against the source, savouring the smell much longer than they savour even their meals

 

 

[row_33]

Mark Harris, devoted husband to Martha Raye, one of the greatest Howard Stern guests all-time, has apparently died....

 

 

[Canadian Bills Fan]

TIL of the Flying Wedge, a popular football play in the early 1900's where the entire team would form a V and charge down the field, sweeping down the field like a tank. Teddy Roosevelt threatened to abolish the sport after 18 players died and 159 were badly injured during that season.

 

 

[row_33]

  On 10/10/2018 at 6:43 PM, Canadian Bills Fan said:

TIL of the Flying Wedge, a popular football play in the early 1900's where the entire team would form a V and charge down the field, sweeping down the field like a tank. Teddy Roosevelt threatened to abolish the sport after 18 players died and 159 were badly injured during that season.

 

 

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that was an early chapter in the Big Book of 100 Football Facts that were plenteous in the 60s and 70s for young readers, teaching about the game 50+ years earlier

 

a Jim Thorpe leg whip tackle from behind was just as much feared

 

 

 

[Fadingpain]

Today I learned that Dua Lipa is an English performer, not Portuguese for "two lips."

 

 

[BUFFALOKIE]

  On 10/9/2018 at 2:47 PM, Canadian Bills Fan said:

TIL, Calvin Klein's cologne 'Obsession' can draw big cats like Tigers, Jaguars etc from as far as half a mile, who then proceed to taking long sniffs and cuddling against the source, savouring the smell much longer than they savour even their meals

 

 

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I can confirm that Obsession attracts kitties.

 

I ran out about 5 years ago. I thought about buying some the other day when I walked past the scents at the store, but it seemed too pricey at that moment...I think a priority adjustment may be in order. I haven't snuggled with a kittie cat into too too long!

  On 10/10/2018 at 6:53 PM, Fadingpain said:

Today I learned that Dua Lipa is an English performer, not Portuguese for "two lips."

 

 

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What's sexier than roses on a piano? Dua Lipa on an organ!

Edited October 10, 2018 by BUFFALOKIE

[row_33]

The current run of Hogan’s Heroes on Hamilton station CHCH is without a laugh track, makes it a bit more surreal

 

 

[Canadian Bills Fan]

TIL L. Ron. Hubbard’s own son, L. Ron Hubbard Jr. was highly critical of Scientology and claimed black magic was the inner core of Scientology once stating, "my father did not worship Satan. He thought he was Satan."

 

 

[Canadian Bills Fan]

TIL Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was drugged and controlled for years by his live-in therapist, who kept him under constant supervision and profited from the rights to Wilson's work.