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TUSCL trivial date game...for fun...who wants to play

gothamyte
from that Adam Westsiiiide of Gotham
Monday, July 11, 2022 5:38 PM
just for fun. post a true trivia fact where two seemingly odd things existed together during the same date/time period in history, which is mind-blowing. I'll start: *When The Titanic sank, Harriet Tubman was still alive. *US President Jimmy Carter was the first commander-in-chief born in a hospital. Every US President born before him, including Reagan weren't born in a hospital. *Somewhere in the year 2020, we finally stopped paying the war pension to a DAUGHTER of a Civil War Veteran. That's right: we were still paying monthly veterans war pension checks to a woman whose father fought in The Civil War. (She was born very late in his life.) add/on

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  • gothamyte
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    2 years ago
    That Civil War daughter finally died in 2020. *One of President Lincoln's sons was in attendance at the opening of The Lincoln Memorial. (I don't believe he spoke)... *On YouTube, you can see an elderly Maryland man who claimed he witnessed President Lincoln's assassination--because he was a child in Ford's Theater that night. This man appeared on a taped TV show in the 1950s...posted on YouTube.
  • mark94
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    2 years ago
    The last we knew ( 2018 ), two of President John Tyler’s grandsons were still alive. Tyler was President from 1841-1845.
  • gothamyte
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    2 years ago
    *There's a made for TV movie where actor James Dean pulls a gun on Ronald Reagan. Even in that scene, Reagan plays a man older than Dean. *When Lincoln was President, he had an event where he invited Vets of The War of 1812 to The White House to mark it's 50th anniversary.
  • gothamyte
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    2 years ago
    *Presidents Clinton, Bush and Trump were all born in the exact same year. Trump first in June, Bush in July, then Clinton in August.
  • mark94
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    2 years ago
    1903 - First airplane flight ( 12 seconds ) 1909 - First flight across English Channel 1930 - First patent for a jet engine 1961 - First man in space 1969 - Man walks on moon That’s all in one lifetime.
  • shadowcat
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    2 years ago
    Owen, Luke and Andrew Wilson are brothers and all are actors.
  • gothamyte
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    2 years ago
    *There's a picture of Lincoln's coffin visiting New York City by horse carriage and an astute person noticed that the photo most likely also captured a young Teddy Roosevelt looking out the window watching with his sibling because they lived on that street around that apartment floor. *Before Star Trek, Spock / Leonard Nimoy drove a cab in L.A. and picked up a single young politician passenger--a young JFK in L.A. Both men hailing from Boston so Nimoy recognized his state's politician, but Nimoy himself wasn't famous yet. Imagine: 2 huge 60s icons in one car before they were truly household names.
  • gothamyte
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    2 years ago
    *When The Space Shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986 and teacher Christa McAuliffe died, Sesame Street and Big Bird realized it dodged a bullet. Big Bird was the original ideal passenger on that flight--so kids could be interested in space, but no one could figure out how to keep it in costume up there. So a US teacher was the next best thing...
  • skibum609
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    2 years ago
    Jimmy Carter was the first president to be born in a hospital.
  • twentyfive
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    2 years ago
    The book "Green Eggs and Ham" written by Dr. Seuss contains exactly fifty words and was written to win a bet with Bennet Cerf that he couldn't write a book and get it published using fifty words or less
  • skibum609
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    2 years ago
    The Washington Post has never endorsed a Republican candidate for president.
  • BitCoinHodler
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    2 years ago
    MLK, Anne Frank, and Al Davis were all born the same year (1929).
  • motorhead
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    2 years ago
    As a math nerd I like this one When Harvard was founded they did not offer Calculus, because Calculus had not yet been discovered
  • crosscheck
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    2 years ago
    Daryl, Brian, Brent, Duane, Ron and Rich Sutter were all brothers and all played in the NHL. All but Ron and Rich subsequently were head coaches in the NHL. Three of them had sons that play or have played in the NHL.
  • TheeOSU
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    2 years ago
    phatboi iceyloco or whatever he wants to call himself today is actually dougster. but he's still my homie too lulz
  • motorhead
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    2 years ago
    Khris Davis had the same batting average 4 straight years. .247 What are the odds of that?
  • Jimmybigtits
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    2 years ago
    Bobby Fischer was the first American to be officially awarded the title of World Chess Champion in 1972 by beating Boris Spassky. It is likely true that neither of them ever step foot in a strip club
  • BGSD3100
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    2 years ago
    On April 23, 1999, Cardinals third baseman Fernando Tatis hit two grand slams in the same inning off of Dodgers pitcher Chan Ho Park.
  • shailynn
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    2 years ago
    I like cars, so... The world’s first speeding ticket was issued in 1902 How fast was the offending motorist travelling? A scandalous 45mph. 1 in 4 cars on the UK’s road were made in China Which is a lot, given that there are around 35 million cars in the UK. A modern Formula 1 car can drive upside down in a tunnel at 120mph 60 million cars are produced every year That’s 165,000 a day, 6,875 an hour and 115 a minute — crazy right? 1 billion cars are currently in use around the world Compared to the world’s population, that’s around one car for every seven people on Earth. It would take less than a month to get to the moon by car That’s right — drive straight up at an average of 60mph, and you could get to the moon in under a month. The average car contains over 30,000 unique parts 75% of all cars produced by Rolls Royce are still on the road Volkswagen owns twelve well-known car brands from 7 European countries Including Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Audi, Seat, Skoda, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, Ducati, Volkswagen Commerical Vehicles, Scania and MAN. The odds of dying in a car accident are around 1 in 5,000 Compare that to the odds of dying in a plane crash (1 in 11 million), and driving sounds pretty dangerous!
  • ilbbaicnl
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    2 years ago
    I don't think any car could drive continuously on the roof of a tunnel. It might be able to spiral through a tubular tunnel.
  • motorhead
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    2 years ago
    The Parkland school shooting took place in 1918 (Source: President Joe Biden)
  • gammanu95
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    2 years ago
    2278 BC: The last wooly mammoths to survive the ice age were living on Wrangel Island in the Russian Arctic The Great Pyramid at Giza was built circa 2570 BC
  • iknowbetter
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    2 years ago
    The fun fact about F1 cars is interesting, and this was discussed last year in my kid’s physics class. It goes like this: In 2022, new F1 rules allow for ground effects that produce 1800 kg of downforce at 200 mph. The new F1 car weighs 800 kg, plus 110 kg of fuel, plus a 70 kg driver, which is just more than half the weight of the downforce being generated. So in theory, since the ground effects downforce is greater than the force of gravity, the car would be able to drive upside down, stuck to the top of a tunnel, or under a long, flat bridge, etc. Of course there is a difference between theory and reality, and I don’t think anyone has tried this, nor does it seem possible to get started, and up to a speed of 200 mph upside down. But yes, it works on paper.
  • iknowbetter
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    2 years ago
    Do you realize that there is the same number of years between 2000 and 2021 as between 2000 and 1979?
  • motorhead
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    2 years ago
    I once read the fax machine was invented sometime around the 1840’s. Hard to believe since the telegraph was only invented in the 1830’s
  • TheeOSU
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    2 years ago
    'The Parkland school shooting took place in 1918 (Source: President Joe Biden)' He should know, he was a student then.
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