Pop Culture Trivia for February 17, 2014
► 1904, Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly premiered at the La Scala theatre in Milan, Italy. It was one of the firts world-wide pop culture event 'hits'.
► The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opened in Springfield, MA in 1968
► 1972 - With the 15,007,034th Volkswagen Beetle coming off the assembly line, the VW Beetle broke the world car production record held for more than four decades by the Ford Motor Company's Model T, which was in production from 1908 and 1927.
► In 1995, Colin Fergson was convicted of the 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings and received a 200+ year sentence to jail
► 1996 - In the final game of a six-game match, world chess champion Garry Kasparov defeated Deep Blue, IBM’s chess-playing computer, and won the match, 4-2. But in 1997, Deep Blue defeated Kasparov in a rematch.
► The magazine Newsweek was published for the first time in 1933. In October 2012, it was announced that Newsweek would cease print publication with the December 31, 2012.
Now You Know:
Sonicare did a poll about toothbrushes in 2007. They found out that 54% of Americans would use the toothbrush after it fell on the floor. 9% said they would use it after it fell in a toilet!
Joke of the Day:
A little girl at a wedding asked, "Mommy, why do brides always wear white?"
"Because they're happy," the mom replied.
Halfway through the wedding, the girl whispered, "Mommy, if brides wear white because they're happy, then why do grooms wear black?"
Quote of the Day:
If aliens saw us walking our dogs and picking up their poop, who would they think is in charge?
Random Daily Factoid:
Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second. -
Have a fangtastic day! Brock
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