About 75% of your brain is made of water. Your heart beats about 115,000 times a day. Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in the solar system. The nearest star to Earth is 4.2 light-years away. 1- Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water. 2- The Mona…
Billy Bob Thornton learned to play the violin for some scenes that required it. Several people that played Texan extras in the movie are actual descendants of the defenders of the Alamo. Crockett was a performer on the violin, and often during the siege took it up and played his…
After teaching in the Oxford area for a dozen years, she decided to further her own education and in 1850 enrolled at the Clinton Liberal Institute in Clinton, New York, for a year of study. When she turned four years old, she was enrolled at Colonel Richard Stone’s school. Clara…
He believed in the “Gospel of Wealth,” which meant that wealthy people were morally obligated to give their money back to others in society. Carnegie had made some charitable donations before 1901, but after that time, giving his money away became his new occupation. During his lifetime, Carnegie gave away…
when he died in 1943. Grandson Harry Morgan founded the investment bank Morgan Stanley and Co., which today is Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. However, no descendants have been active in JP Morgan since the mid-1970s. The Connecticut native followed his wealthy father into the banking business in the…
Heinz borrowed the money from friends and lenders and could finally collect only $1,000 dollars. Though Heinz pleaded a lot, the greedy drug-seller refused to sell the drug at a low cost. Now, Heinz had no other option but to steal the drug from the shop to save the life…
Dickinson claimed never to have read Whitman’s poetry, which her friend the influential editor Josiah Gilbert Holland branded as “disgraceful.” And Whitman had never heard of her. She once told a friend that all literature might be sifted to the Bible and Shakespeare. A vital ally in the poet’s love…
Most of their songs were either penned by just one of the pair or by outside writers. Brooks & Dunn took a detour from their music in 2008, when they released a book titled The Adventures of Slim and Howdy. Garth Brooks has written quite a few of his own…
At age nine, Gordon began competing in kart racing, and by age twelve, he had won over 200 races in Quarter Midgets and go-karts. Gordon, the face of NASCAR as it exploded in popularity in the 1990s, had an equity stake in Hendrick Motorsports since 1999, and his interest in…
Closely tied with this idea of vulnerability, West revolutionized the structure of rap songs with “808s & Heartbreak.” As opposed to spitting over a beat for the entirety of a song, West added more melodic, singing elements. His name was Afrika BambaataaAfrika BambaataaHe is notable for releasing a series of…