First, today is Amber’s 27th birthday. Welcome to your 27th year. It’s not so bad.
Recent random information from our calendar:
1. When CBS broadcast the first television show in color, no one other than CBS owned a color television set.
2. Louis XIV bathed once a year. He had forty personal wigmakers and almost one thousand wigs.
3. Sea sponges are used in drugs for treating asthma and cancer.
4. According to the Texas Department of Transportation, one person is killed annually while painting stripes on the state’s highways and roads.
5. “Happy as a clam” is from the expression “happy as a clam at high tide.” Clams are only harvested when the tide is out.
6. Ernest Vincent Wright wrote the fifty-thousand-word novel Gatsby without any word containing the letter “e”. (Let’s ponder the fact that this includes the word “the”)
7. There are more doughnut shops per capita in Canada than in any other country.
