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FACT-OF-THE-DAY ARCHIVE
"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
- Marcus Aurelius

MAR 2011


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3/1/11     A person weighing 150 pounds on Earth would weigh 4,200 pounds on the sun because the sun's gravity is 28 times that of Earth. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/2/11     Words form only 7% of our communication with anyone, including spouses. Tone of voice accounts for 38% and body language is responsible for 55% of the messages spouses receive from each other. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/3/11     On "Black Tuesday," October 29, 1929, the market lost $14 billion, making the loss for that week an astounding $30 billion. This was ten times more than the annual federal budget and far more than the U.S. had spent in WWI. Thirty billion dollars would be equivalent to $377,587,032,770.41 today. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/4/11     In the beginning of the twentieth century, up to a third of all patients in mental asylums were thought to be suffering from tertiary syphilis. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/5/11     A man could lose Roman citizenship if he deserted the army, mutilated himself so he could not serve, or dodged a census to evade taxation. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/6/11     In the early 1900s, many American cities created laws that required all women in bathing suits to wear stockings. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/7/11     Horace Wells (1815 -1848) an American dentist, discovered the use of anesthesia in dentistry and surgery, specifically nitrous oxide. In 1844, Horace Wells was the first dentist to use nitrous oxide as anesthesia in tooth extractions. The American Dental Association honored Wells, posthumously in 1864, as the discoverer of modern anesthesia, and the American Medical Association recognized his achievement in 1870. - Sources: Wikipedia | Horace Wells Statue | William A. MacDonnell, D.D.S. | Horace Wells Trust Fund.
3/8/11     Although it is much colder on Mars than on Earth, the similar tilt of Earth's and Mars' axes means they have similar seasons. Like Earth's, Mars' north and south polar caps shrink in the summer and grow in the winter. In addition, a day on Mars is 24 hours 37 minutes - nearly the same as Earth's. No other planet shares such similar characteristics with Earth. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/9/11     The first sharks lived more than 400 million years ago - 200 million years before the first dinosaurs. They have changed very little over the eons. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/10/11     About 20% of all volcanoes are under water. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/11/11     The youngest president was Teddy Roosevelt who became president at age 42 when McKinley (1843-1901) was assassinated. JFK was the youngest president elected at the age of 43. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/12/11     Monkeys express affection and make peace with others by grooming each other. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/13/11     There are 104 commercial nuclear power plants producing 20 percent of all electricity and over 70 percent of the emission-free electricity generated in the United States. They are located at 64 sites in 31 states. - Provided by Wikipedia
3/14/11     There are 104 commercial nuclear power plants producing 20 percent of all electricity and over 70 percent of the emission-free electricity generated in the United States. They are located at 64 sites in 31 states. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/15/11     During a radiation emergency, such as fears of a nuclear plant explosion, you may be advised to create a "shelter in place." This means you should stay inside your home or office, or perhaps another confined area indoors. To keep your shelter in place effective, you should: close and lock all doors and windows; turn off fans, air conditioners, or any units that bring in air from outside; move to an inner room or basement; keep your radio tuned to the emergency response network or local news to find out what else you need to do. - Provided by United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission
3/16/11     Within 20 minutes of quitting smoking, a person's blood pressure returns to normal. Within one year, the chance of suffering a heart attack decreases by half. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/17/11     China invented ice cream, and Marco Polo is rumored to have taken the recipe (along with the recipe for noodles) back with him to Europe. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/18/11     Japan has 10% of the world's active volcanoes. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/19/11     There are sixty women's colleges in the United States in twenty-four states. The state with the most women's colleges is Massachusetts, with eight. Pennsylvania comes in second with seven. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/20/11     While wine offers certain medical benefits, it may slightly increase the risk of contracting certain kinds of cancer of the digestive tract, particularly the esophagus. There is also a slightly increased risk of breast cancer. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/21/11     Marriage does more to promote life satisfaction than money, sex, or even children, say Wake Forest University psychologists. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/22/11     It is traditional to first serve lighter wines and then move to heavier wines throughout a meal. Additionally, white wine should be served before red, younger wine before older, and dry wine before sweet. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/23/11     The first Mother's Day was held on May 10, 1908, and was organized by Anna Jarvis in West Virginia and Philadelphia. As the event gained popularity throughout the country, Congress designated the second Sunday in May as a national day of recognition for mothers in 1914. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/24/11     The largest baby ever born weighed in at over 23 pounds but died just 11 hours after his birth in 1879. The largest surviving baby was born in October 2009 in Sumatra, Indonesia and weighed an astounding 19.2 pounds at birth. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/25/11     More than half of the growth in the total U.S. population between 2000 and 2010 was because of the increase in the Hispanic population. Between 2000 and 2010, the Hispanic population grew by 43 percent, rising from 35.3 million in 2000 to 50.5 million in 2010. - Provided by U.S. Census Bureau
3/26/11     Two men who appeared in the wildly popular Marlboro Man advertisements died of lung cancer, earning Marlboro cigarettes the nickname 'Cowboy Killer.' - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/27/11     Abraham Lincoln was the first president to ever be photographed at his inauguration. In the photo, he is standing near John Wilkes Booth, his future assassin. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
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3/28/11     The U.S. mean center of population, as of April 1, 2010, is near Plato, Mo., an incorporated village in Texas County. The U.S. Census Bureau calculated this point as the place where an imaginary, flat, weightless and rigid map of the United States would balance perfectly if all 308,745,538 residents counted in the 2010 Census were of identical weight. - Provided by Census Bureau
3/29/11     Rome's population of more than a million was not matched by any other European city until London finally over took it in the nineteenth century. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/30/11     According to one national survey on drug use, each day approximately 6,000 Americans try marijuana for the first time. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
3/31/11     The SAT was developed by Carl Brigham who, in the early twentieth century, felt that American education was declining due to racial mixing. The SAT was administered for the first time to high school students in 1926. - Provided by RandomHistory.com


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