2. DID YOU KNOW?
In 1895, at the age of 17, Albert
Einstein applied for early admission
into the Swiss Federal Polytechnical
School. He passed the math and
science sections of the entrance exam,
but failed the rest. Einstein had to go
to a trade school before he retook the
exam and was finally admitted to ETH
a year later.
3. DID YOU KNOW?
Jesus is the English transliteration of
the Greek name Iesus. Joshua is the
English transliteration of the Hebrew
name Yeshuah. Both Jesus and Joshua
mean Yahweh saves or Jehovah is
salvation. The name Jesus appears in
the Bible more than 900 times.
5. DID YOU KNOW?
Alfred Hitchcock tried to buy every
copy of the book based on ‘Psycho’ so
no one would know how it ended.
6. DID YOU KNOW?
Smokey Bear was given his own zip
code in Washington, D.C. on April
29, 1964 due to the large amount of
mail he was receiving.
7. DID YOU KNOW?
The Chick-Fil-A Cows appeared on their
first billboard in 1995, first TV
commercial in 1997, and first calendar
in 1998.
8. DID YOU KNOW?
It’s estimated Tea Party protestors
tossed more than 92,000 pounds of tea
into Boston Harbor. That’s enough to
fill 18.5 million tea bags. The present-
day value of the destroyed tea has
been estimated at around $1 million.
9. DID YOU KNOW?
Prior to adopting Mark Twain as his
pen name, Samuel Langhorne Clemens
wrote under the pen name Thomas
Jefferson Snodgrass for a number of
humorous pieces that he contributed
to the Keokuk Post.
10. DID YOU KNOW?
Poe is considered the father of the
Detective Story. Some have even
suggested that Sherlock Holmes is
based on Poe’s own, C. Auguste Dupin.
This is why the Mystery Writers of
America have named their awards for
excellence in the genre, “Edgars.”