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}