Sunday, June 14, 2009

Did You Know????

  • The word news was coined from the fact that early daily papers carried images of globes on their mastheads and boasted that their reports came from all directions – North, East, West, and South.
  • Tip is an acronym for “to insure promptness” – and once upon a time was given in advance.
  • Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
  • Because the studio expected it to bomb, the budget of Casablanca was so low that the plane used in the background of the final scene was a small cardboard cutout. To give it the illusion of being full-sized, the producers hired midgets to portray the crew preparing it for takeoff.
Resource: ~~Who Knew? By David Hoffman

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