I Bet Ya Didn't Know: The only words spoken by Clarabelle The Clown (Howdy Doody Show) was "Good Bye Kids" on the 2,343rd-and-last episode of the show on September 30, 1960!
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I Bet Ya Didn't Know: Roses:
Roses do not have thorns 'they have prickles'. A prickle is a growth on the outer side of the epidermis. Thorns are produced in the inner tissues of the stem.
Fossil specimens of the rose have been found in Montana, Colorado and Oregon, USA, which prove that the rose existed 35 million years ago.
It takes between 10000 to 15000 hand picked rose blooms to make 11g of rose oil. The value of rose oil in weight is 5 times more than the same weight in gold.
The World’s Largest Rose Bush is a White Lady Banksia in Tombstone Arizona. The original root came from Scotland in 1885. From a single trunk it has spread over an arbor that covers over 2000 square meters. Each spring it is covered with millions of tiny white blooms.
In 1455 the York family (represented by a white rose) and the Lancaster family (represented by a red rose) started the war of the roses in England. It is said that they stopped fighting when a rose bush that was half red and half white was found.
The rose is the official national floral emblem of the United States. This legislation was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on October 7, 1986. The rose is also the state flower of Georgia, Iowa, New York, North Dakota and the District of Columbia.
I Bet Ya Didn't Know: The cuckoo ray is the only creature in nature that has eyelids inside its eyes.
I Bet Ya Didn't Know: The ball on top of a flagpole is called a "truck."Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt served hot dogs and beer to King George VI in 1939. Not to be outdone, Queen Elizabeth II served hot dogs at a royal banquet for the American Bar Association. Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan also served hot dogs in the White House.
I Bet Ya Didn't Know: The first toothbrush with bristles was developed in China in 1498. Bristles were taken from hogs at first, later from horses. The nylon bristles were developed in 1938 by DuPont.
I Bet Ya Didn't Know: False eyelashes were invented by film director D.W. Griffith while he was making the 1916 epic, "Intolerance." He wanted actress Seena Owen to have lashes that brushed her cheeks.
I Bet Ya Didn't Know: According to TIME magazine, the only new shoe in 300 years is the sneaker.
I Bet Ya Didn't Know: You now have 144 fewer bones than you had as an infant. Many of your baby bones fuse together. So you start out with 350 and wind up with only 206. The last to fuse is the collar bone. Somewhere from age 18 to 25.
I Bet Ya Didn't Know: The giant red star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth's orbit around the sun.
I Bet Ya Didn't Know: DNA studies indicate that hippopotamuses are most closely related to whales.
I Bet Ya Didn't Know: An area of 49,000 square miles in the northwest section of the providence of Ontario, Canada, is served by a single telephone directory of 60 pages.
I Bet Ya Didn't Know: Scientists study snowflakes by spreading a chemical compound over a glass plate and waiting until a snowflake lands there. The compound immediately covers the snowflake and hardens. When the snowflake melts, it leaves behind a plastic case that shows its exact structure.
I Bet Ya Didn't Know: If you are trying to gain control of a situation, you are trying to get the "upper hand." This phrase originated with the advent of sandlot baseball. In order to determine which team would bat first, one player would grasp the baseball bat at the lower end. A player from the opposing team would then place his hand directly above the first player's hand. They would alternate hands up the bat until the end was reached and one of the players had the "upper hand".
I Bet Ya Didn't Know: A cuckoo clock was ordered removed from a polling place in Oss, the Netherlands, because its cuckoo sounded as if it were calling out the name of one of the candidates-Koekoek.
I Bet Ya Didn't Know: On May 18, 1910 thousands took to their roofs, huddling for comfort and praying for salvation. Many believed the end of the world was near. The source of their anxiety was Halley's Comet, which returned from its 75-year odyssey through space.
I Bet Ya Didn't Know: For the first time in 1918, the Post Office issued airmail stamps, as Army pilots began the first "aeroplane mail" service.
I Bet Ya Didn't Know: The turtle has the lowest pulse rate of any animal: 13 beats per minute.
I Bet Ya Didn't Know: Paul Morphy (1837-1884), American chess wizard, memorized the 535-page Louisiana Civil Code and passed his bar examination at the age of 19. He was admitted to the bar with the stipulation that he could not practice law until he became 21.