I committed to learn one thing almost every day for 365 days, here is the list. I found that I made a day counting mistake so the number was actually 372. From the weird to the fun to the dark to the random. Here's what I learned. enjoy!!!
Day 1 There was a short lived TV series called Roomies starring Burt Young and Corey Haim
Day 2 You can't love anyone until you love yourself fails if your concept of love is deeply flawed
Day 3 Josh Brolin was the young gay FBI agent in Flirting with Disaster
Day 4 Vaccine comes from the word vacca for cow
Day 5 I'm more annoyed by the cop in Die Hard than the principal in Breakfast Club
Day 6 A serger is a particular kind of sewing machine
Day 7 An immersive art exhibit is literally immersive
Day 8 I learned nothing new
Day 9 Big Bird is different colors all around the world
Day 10 John Denver's real name is Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.
Day 11 Arse is derogatory in England, Ass means donkey
Day 12 Bagpipes are from Scotland and Ginuwine's real name starts with Elgin Baylor
Day 13 The Pointer Sisters WERE sisters
Day 14 Katherine and Audrey Hepburn are not sisters
Day 15 Easter has a bunny because bunnies have lots of babies and represent life
Day 16 Xanadu was the summer capital of the Kublai Khan Yuan dynasty in China
Day 17 Costco sells a 3 liter bottle of Prosecco
Day 18 27 years later Clerks holds up
Day 19 QAnon doc was produced by Adam McKay
Day 20 Pablo Cruise is not a person it's the name of a band
Day 21 Godzilla's name comes from Gojira which combines a whale and a gorilla
Day 22 The word hysteria's root comes from uterus in Greek and used to be a "condition"
Day 23 Pennsylvania Polks by Frank Yankovic and the Yanks is the song during Groundhog Day groundhog scene
Day 24 Ken means "one's range of knowledge or sight" and there's worldwide versions of dumplings
Day 25 There was a non-funny Pope named Hilarius
Day 26 Andre Drummond dated Sam from iCarly and iCarly once spoofed Snoop's killing in The Wire
Day 27 Levar Burton was a cop in the video Word Up!
Day 28 Penalty flags used to be white in the NFL and red in College
Day 29 Robert Redford directed Ordinary People
Day 30 All of My Love by Led Zeppelin was written in honor of Robert Plant's 5 year old son who died
Day 31 My optometrist is a Clockwork Orange Fan
Day 32 The Design Predictive business
Day 33 Bunnies can swim
Day 34 Karen Carpenter played the drums
Day 35 Red Stovie singing Teddy Bear
Day 36 Dexys Midnight Run didn't have an apostrophe in its name
Day 37 Slowly I turn was done on numerous shows
Day 38 The word guacamole means avocado sauce in Mayan āhuacatl + mōlli avocado + sauce
Day 39 Do not rinse raw chicken it spreads disease
Day 40 "ize" is actually a legitimate way to make a word active
Day 41 Rebecca Webb Carranza made tortilla chips rectangular
Day 42 Frank McCourt published his first book Angela's Ashes when he was 60
Day 43 Curly, Wavy, Straight hair is genetic
Day 44 Origin of the words man and woman
Day 45 Akashic Records relates to all things that have ever been thought, felt or said
Day 46 Murphy's Law origin
Day 47 NBA Jam inventor Mark Turmell was a pyromaniac
Day 48 Rob Reiner's mom was in the fake orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally
Day 49 Les Paul is Steve Miller's godfather
Day 50 Association Football became Soccer in the US but Soccer was used in England for a long time
Day 51 Emotional backdraft
Day 52 The Warriors almost hired Stan Van Gundy instead of Steve Kerr.
Day 53 Rebecca Baker composed 3 viola pieces one under Anthony Trent, which got all the credit
Day 54 Tom & Jerry, Tom named for short Tom cat, Jerry no identifiable origin
Day 55 Steve Nash is the only 4 time 50/40/90 player in NBA history (overall FG%/3 pt %/FT %)
Day 56 Most critics hated The Lonely Guy
Day 57 At birth a girl has between 1-2 Million eggs by puberty it's 300,000 when they run out they go through menopause
Day 58 Mary J Blige's real name is Mary J Blige
Day 59 Sister Christian was written near Divisadero and California streets in SF. WOW!
Day 60 Richard Dawkins invented the word meme
Day 61 Legal Tender by the B-52's is about printing counterfeit money
Day 62 Women and girls have periods every month and I forget it.
Day 63 GA 14 where MTG governs from Demographics
Day 64 The card Steve Martin hands out when he meets someone and they ask for his autograph
Day 65 Doggie in the Window was a #1 hit for 8 consecutive weeks in 1953.
Day 66 Bonnie & Clyde were an important final part in creating more creative freedom of the movie ratings
Day 67 Spotify modified it's shuffle algorithm because people thought it wasn't "random" but it actually was.
Day 68 The Boston Celtics logo was designed by Zane Auerbach brother of Red Auerbach.
Day 69 The Girl from Ipanema is an example of Bossa Nova
Day 70 Ain't was originally a fine word to use
Day 71 Glennon Doyle is awesome.
Day 72 In the 1968 Mexico Olympics, silver medal winner Australian sprinter Peter Norman wore a badge on his breast to support John Carlos and Tommie Smith.
Day 73 There are people who didn't like the 1980 movie Flash Gordon.
Day 74 Jack Black's mom helped save Apollo 13 and went into labor with him
Day 75 NSYNC's band name comes from the last name's of the original members JustiN, ChriS, JoeY, JasoN, and JC.
Day 76 15,000 tons of material enters the Earth's atmosphere each day
Day 77 The ablum 77 was named because it was made in 1977
Day 78 The song Cyrstal on Rumors was originally on an album by Buckingham Nicks.
Day 79 The very first Father's Day observance was created after a mining disaster in West Virigina claimed 362 men died leaving almost 1,000 children without dads.
Day 80 The first lottery in the 50 US states was in New Hampshire in 1964 and the numbers were "drawn" based on how horses finished in a thoroughbred race in NH.
Day 81 We say dogs live 7 years to our 1 because their life span averages 10 years and ours averages roughly 70.
Day 82 Only eat oysters in months with an "r" in the name
Day 83 Tennis comes from the French tenez, the plural imperative form of the verb tenir, to hold, meaning "hold!", "receive!" or "take!", an interjection used as a call from the server to his opponent to indicate that he is about to serve
Day 84 John Legend played piano on the song Everything is Everything by Lauryn Hill
Day 85 Corgi means Dwarf Dog in Welsh
Day 86 Lewis Caroll's name came from the first two part s of his full name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson translated into Latin reversed the order and translated back to English
Day 87 Yaz changed its name in North America because of a lawsuit threat from a record company called Yazoo Records who had a small group called Yazoo.
Day 88 The number 8 is lucky in Chinese because the word for 8 "ba" sounds like the words "fortune" and "prosper" in Chinese.
Day 89 Curiosity killed the cat was originally "Care'll kill a cat" as a line in a play uttered by William Shakespeare as an ACTOR in 1598, in Ben Jonson’s city comedy, Every Man in His Humour.
Day 90 Donald Rumsfeld wrote a funny letter to the IRS once
Day 91 Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Fatory was a box office bomb and the music was panned and Pure Imagination took 25 years to get recognized
Day 92 Holidays have the fewest babies born in the US (Xmas in particular) partly because Doctors generally won't schedule Cesearian sections are scheduled or induce labor those days either.
Day 93 Warner Brothers was named after 4 actual brothers Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack.
Day 94 Freud invented the term anal retentive
Day 95 Solsbury Hill is an actual hill and is a song by Peter Gabriel about being prepared to lose what you have for what you might get ... It's about letting go.
Day 96 Flying monkeys is a term sometimes used in pop psychology to describe people who are acting at the behest of another to control a targeted individual.
Day 97 Rice water strengthens, beautifies and detangles hair.
Day 98 There's no Bob in Yessirree Bob
Day 99 99 Red Balloons was an anti-war song.
Day 100 Pretzels are shaped like cross armed children praying, invented by an Italian monk in 610 AD.
Day 101 WKRP in Cincinnati, Mork & Mindy, Battlestar Galactica and Taxi all made the TV debut within 4 days of each other in September of 1978
Day 102 Foo Fighter guitarist Pat Smear was an extra in the video for Raspberry Beret by Prince
Day 103 In 1920 a group of Notre Dame students clashed with a group of KKK members from having a parade in South Bend.
Day 104 When you dream you are playing marbles it's because you are trying to control a situation in life that appears to depend on chance
Day 105 The game Dungeons and Dragons was named that after one of the creators showed a list of names to his two yeard daughter and she said ""Oh Daddy, I like Dungeons & Dragons best!"
Day 106 Yester-me, Yester-You, Yesterday by Stevie Wonder was recorded 2 years before My Cherie Amour and was included because of vocal problems he was having.
Day 107 Stevie Wonder's song "For Once in My Life" was written by Ron Miller the evening his daughter Angel was born.
Day 108 Leslie Visser won a Carnegie Foundation grant in 1974 for sportswriting, it was designed for awards for women going into career areas that had 95% or more men.
Day 109 Kool and the Gang got their name from their bassist Robert "Kool" Bell who took the name from a neighborhood dude named Cool but used a K.
Day 110 The word "emotion" was coined in the early 1800s by Thomas Brown and it is around the 1830s that the modern concept of emotion first emerged for the English language
Day 111 Kirilose Mansour sued Bumble because he claimed its discriminatory to only allow women to send messages to men first
Day 112 A large cloud can weigh as much as 600 blue whales.
Day 113 The word "date" as in dating was first used by a Chicago columnist named George Ade in 1896.
Day 114 Chevy was first used instead of Chevrolet in the Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Day 115 Interlocutor means "one who takes part in a conversation or a dialogue"
Day 116 The song Steal My Sunshine by Len was created by a brother and sister group from Canada.
Day 117 The term "blockbuster" came from when a movie was so popular the line for it formed around the block.
Day 118 The Simpsons Paradox is a phenomenon in probability and statistics in which a trend appears in several groups of data but disappears or reverses when the groups are combined
Day 119 Bohemian Rhapsody was the streamed song in the 20th century with over 1.6 Billion streams.
Day 120 Angelica Rubio who is now a state Rep in New Mexico was the daughter of the mom who had the tortilla with Jesus' image in 1977 in New Mexico.
Day 121 September is the most popular birthday month.
Day 122 Zodiac means "cycle of little animals" even though the signs aren't all animals and it was invented by the Babylonians.
Day 123 The phrase "It is what it is" was first in print from J.E. Lawrence in 1949 in the Nebraska State Journal.
Day 124 Primates grieve death.
Day 125 Dave Chappelle was in Con Air.
Day 126 Many Amish people do not want their pictures taken.
Day 127 Frank Sinatra wore a toupee for a lot of his career.
Day 128 Phil Collins offered to join The Who after Keith Moon died and would have left Genesis.
Day 129 Some restaurants charge a "cake-age" fee.
Day 130 Norm MacDonald lost all his money 3 times gambling
Day 131 Pop is used to refer to soda pop in the Midwest because it's the sound made when opening a bottle.
Day 132 Tiffany Haddish learned from Roger Rabbit that if you make people laugh, they'll do anything for you - which is almost true.
Day 133 NBA Hall of Famer Bill Sharman invented the shootaround as a way to burn off nervous energy before a game.
Day 134 James Baldwin was an important part of nudging Maya Angelou to write the magnificent I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.
Day 135 The original Stanley Cup was purchased by Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley for $50.
Day 136 Herman Hesse author of Siddartha seemingly steeped in eastern religion was Chirstian of his parents Christianity, one not preached but lived, was the strongest of the powers that shaped and moulded me
Day 137 Lido is the name of a person in the song Lido Shuffle by Boz Scaggs AND Lido is the proper name of Lido "Lee" Iacocca, former auto CEO for two of the big three automakers.
Day 138 Paul Simon's "You can call me Al" was written after he went to a party and a famous person referred to him mistakenly as Al and his wife Peggy mistakenly as Betty.
Day 139 Some people have "preferred sides" for pictures.
Day 140 Tyson Fury was named after Mike Tyson.
Day 141 The Kinks got their name, according to Ray Davies, because their manager said they had a "kinky" fashion sense.
Day 142 The wildly popular Netflix show Squid Game was rejected for 10 years before finally getting made.
Day 143 The baseball name team Dodgers came from the maze of trolleys that moved through Brooklyn in the 1800's. The baseball team name Giants was coined after a big win in the late 1800's where the manager proclaimed "My big fellows, my giants!!" and it replaced their original name, Gothams.
Day 144 Die hard the phrase die hard was first used during the Battle of Albuera (1811) in the Peninsular War.
Day 145 The title of Sojourner Truth's Ain't I a Woman speech has roots in anti-abolition slogans from Britain.
Day 146 SEC college football schools are fined $100,000 when students rush the field on first offense, $250,000 every time after that.
Day 147 Janet Leigh who played the ill fated woman in Psycho is Jamie Lee Curtis' mom.
Day 148 Chris Ford made the NBA's first three pointer.
Day 149 When Beethoven went deaf he attached a wooden rod to his piano so he could feel the music inventing Bone Conduction.
Day 150 CODA stands for Children of Deaf Adults
Day 151 There is a World Cup for "Keeping the Balloon from Hitting the Ground" game.
Day 152 Tribulation means distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution.
Day 153 Crows got their bad rap because they scavenge off dead animals and humans and were then asscoiated with death and witches.
Day 154 Noah was the first winemaker
Day 155 Prince wrote the song Manic Monday by the Bangles
Day 156 Dusty Baker was in the on deck circle for Hank Aaron's historic record home run.
Day 157 Ronald Reagan was the first to use Make America Great Again in political speeches.
Day 158 The horse's head that appeared in an iconic scene in the film The Godfather was real.
Day 159 Joseph Strauss installed nets as the Goldent Gate Bridge was constructed and saved at least 19 lives.
Day 160 One Step Beyond was originally recorded by Prince Buster then covered by Madness.
Day 161 The first NBA game ever was played in Canada between the Toronto Huskies and New York Knicks in 1946.
Day 162 In 1895, George Hudson, an entomologist from New Zealand proposed a two-hour time shift (daylight savings) so he'd have more after-work hours of sunshine to go bug hunting in the summer.
Day 163 A hat maker is called a Milliner
Day 164 The actor who played Jerry on Parks and Rec auditioned for the role of Ron Swanson.
Day 165 DMX is short for Dark Man X.
Day 166 Hildegard of Bingen (aka St. Hildegard) invented the first skin moisturizer in 1100 in Germany.
Day 167 (719) 266-2837 is an AMAZING hotline for Hall & Oates
Day 168 Cisgender comes from the latin "cis" to meaning "on this side of" and is the antonym of transgender.
Day 169 Silvio Dante was originally a character from a treatment script written by Stevie Van Zandt
Day 170 Clinatro tastes soapy to some people and it's genetic.
Day 171 The Stranger Things TV soundtrack is the most played soundtrack on Spotify at 5 billion plays.
Day 172 Bridget Bishop was the first woman executed in the Salem Witch Trials.
Day 173 Brian May of Queen is an astrophysicist.
Day 174 Sally Field starred in a TV show where she was a nun who could fly in the late 60's.
Day 175 Nick Saban listens to Gimme Shelter with his wife Miss Terry after every road game win on the way home from the airport.
Day 176 Henry David Thoreau believed deeply in God and disliked organized religion.
Day 177 Franksgiving relates to when FDR moved the Thanksgiving holiday back one week in 1939 to stimulate the economy's Christmas shopping.
Day 178 The day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day of the year for plumbers and is called Brown Friday.
Day 179 Goose bumps' scientific name is Piloerection.
Day 180 In 1971, 33 inmates and 10 correctional officers were killed in Attica Prison in NY after 2,000+ inmates took it over to protest for prisoner's rights.
Day 181 The Snowths was the name of the pair of pink animals in the mah na mah na song.
Day 182 Part of the cremated remains of the man who designed the Pringles can were buried in a Pringles can.
Day 183 Mel Brooks' musical All American which bombed became the inspiration for the wildly successful musical The Producers.
Day 184 The retriever in Golden Retriever refers to the breed's ability to retrieve shot game undamaged due to their soft mouth.
Day 185 Jon Voight is Angelina Jolie's father.
Day 186 The real life inspiration for Mark Ratner in Fast Times at Ridgemont High wrote the first ….for Dummies book called Windows for Dummies and has written 50 books, multiple best sellers.
Day 187 The "-oid" on factoid as a suffix refers to something having the appearance of or resembling something.
Day 188 A single paragraph of a non-scientific study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggesting pain killing opiates weren't addictive effectively spawned the opiods crisis.
Day 189 On Dec 21, 1978 a 17 year old named Barbara Annette Oswald hijacked TWA Flight 541 and ultimately surrendered.
Day 190 In early 1963 there was a Kellog's vs Post battle against time to launch the Pop Tart
Day 191 63 of the 100 largest cities in the US have Democratic compared to 26 with Republican mayors (Independent and nonpartisan the rest).
Day 192 Amos Alonzo Stagg, the first ever paid college football coach in 1890 was also a vegetarian.
Day 193 The word pitch is used for soccer playing because they originally played the game where they also played cricket.
Day 194 Soccer pitches are different sizes in every stadium to to let the soccer clubs have a field advantage when they are playing at their home stadium.
Day 195 Jerry Seinfeld writes every morning.
Day 196 A 1976 magazine article that was the inspiration for Saturday Night Fever entitled "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night" was mostly made up.
Day 197 Pardon my French was an expression first used in England when English speakers would say a French word but was also a dig at France.
Day 198 "Fresh as a daisy" originated from the flowers were first called "day's eyes" because the petals covered the yellow center at night and opened in the day.
Day 199 A sapiophile is someone who is attracted to intelligence or intelligent people.
Day 200 Christopher comes from the Greek meaning "bearer of Christ"
Day 201 The "fishes" in the Jesus Loaves and Fishes story is a word used to describe multiple types of fish.
Day 202 Pinball was banned from the early 1940's until 1976 first in NY but then in LA and several other cities.
Day 203 Vomit bags were first put on airplanes in 1949 invented by Gilmore T. Schjeldahl.
Day 204 The "Roe" in Roe v Wade refers to Jane Roe, the anoymized name of the plantiff.
Day 205 Nimrod was a skilled hunter, grandson of Noah in the Bible and was reframed as a criticism via Bugs Bunny.
Day 206 The songs "If I only had a brain/heart/nerve" from Wizard of Oz were originally written for an earlier Broadway show but the song was dropped and then put in the Wizard of Oz.
Day 207 Ralph Macchio was one year older than Thomas Ian Griffith in Karate Kidd III and still is in Cobra Kai.
Day 208 Good grief, the phrase popularized in Charlie Brown, is an expression of surprise or annoyance and the word grief can be used as a substitue for God.
Day 209 Rap started from West African "griots" who told stories over rhythmic beats.
Day 210 The phrases human race and human species mean the same thing.
Day 211 Devil in deviled eggs refers to a cooking technique wherein the food is spiced up aggressively with "hot" spices.
Day 212 Padiddle was originally a game in which upon spotting a car with one headlight (a "paddidle") and calling it out a boy would get a kiss or a slap.
Day 213 The word "commit" in commit suicide has been framed in the context of commiting a crime or a sin.
Day 214 A shire is an administrative subidivision in England and is synomymous with county.
Day 215 Ctrl-Alt-Del was the three key action chosen because it requires both hands to do it.
Day 216 Wordle was named after its creator Josh Wardle who invented it for him and his partner in 2020.
Day 217 There is a Road to Nowhere in North Carolina.
Day 218 Hitler was a vegetarian for a number of years.
Day 219 The Sugar Hill Gang (Rapper's Delight) had a member named Big Bank Hank not Big BAD Hank.
Day 220 The saying "This ain't my first rodeo" comes from the 1981 movie Mommie Dearest.
Day 221 Jack Johnson's lyrics/music was the "voice" of Curious George in the 2006 movie.
Day 222 2 is the most feminine number
Day 223 Milk Bones got their name from the amount of cow's milk in them by a New York City bakery that invented them.
Day 224 The term "alley-oop" is derived from the French term allez hop!, the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap
Day 225 The fly in "your fly is open" is the fabric that is separated and open, not the zipper.
Day 226 Dancers say Merde to wish good luck in performance instead of break a leg.
Day 227 Hans Zimmer was briefly in the Buggles and briefly in the video "Video Killed the Radio Star"
Day 228 A lunar year, which is 12 full cycles of the moon, is about 354 days so the new year's date changes ever year.
Day 229 Lily Collins, the star of Emily in Paris is Phil Collins' daughter.
Day 230 In the 1960's Disney almost built a ski resort in the Sequoia National Park and Richard Nixon played a notable role in stopping it.
Day 231 Beijing means Northern Capital.
Day 232 Cara Cara oranges got their name from the place they were discovered in Venezeula.
Day 233 The original name of Spongebob Squarepants was "SpongeBoy" but that was taken by a cleaning product.
Day 234 There's no single explanation for why it's called "the green room" but one explanation suggests it was for immature actors waiting to perform.
Day 235 Green cards were originally green and were shorthand for the more cumbersome name Alien Registration Recipt Card.
Day 236 Purgatory is the state of those who die in God's friendship, assured of their eternal salvation, but who still have need of purification to enter into the happiness of heaven.
Day 237 Yoga Sutras are short, relevant reflections on yoga compiled/written by Patanjali.
Day 238 Hansom cabs are named after Joseph Hansom who created them.
Day 239 Laurence Fishburne was 14 in Apocalypse Now.
Day 240 The Fifth Amendment originally was designed to combat torture and forced confessions.
Day 241 Figure Skating was originally a Summer Olympics sport.
Day 242 Cheese curds are young, unaged small clumps of cheese that form early in the "cheddaring" process.
Day 243 Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky was the voice in the Ukranian dubbed version of Paddington (2014) & Paddington 2 (2017)
Day 244 The song Danke Schoen is sung by a man.
Day 245 The Incredible Hulk was originally gray.
Day 246 The sports saying "kiss your sister" was first said in sports by Edgar "Rip" Miller, former Notre Dame football player and Asst Director of of Athletics of Navy in 1946.
Day 247 The song "Make You Feel My Love" was written by Bob Dylan.
Day 248 In the NCAA, starting with the 2022-23 academic year, transgender student-athletes will need documented sport-specific testosterone levels at the beginning of their season and a second documentation six months after the first. They will also need documented testosterone levels four weeks before championship selections.
Day 249 Cacio e Pepi pasta is one of the four classic Italian pasta dishes and was first made by shepherds.
Day 250 Oneida spoons emerged from a 19th-century polyamorous communist Christian utopia known as the Oneida Community.
Day 251 Wilt Chamberlain played 48.5 minutes a game in the 1961-62 season.
Day 252 A hoser is someone who has to water down the ice after losing a hockey game pre-Zamboni days.
Day 253 Green dye is used to detect leaks for plumbers and was the origin of Chicago's St. Patrick's Day green river.
Day 254 Cults are sometimes called High Demand Groups.
Day 255 Tiramisu means "pick me up".
Day 256 Beyond the pale refers to being beyond safety and was originally used by Catherine the "Great" in Russia to identify the area where Jewish pepole were "allowed" to live and trade.
Day 257 Menopause occurs when a woman has gone 12 consecutive months without a menstrual period.
Day 258 A member of my beloved Kansas City Chiefs, Curtis McClinton stood with Ali in the Cleveland Summit.
Day 259 Veuve Clicquot translates to "Widow Clicquot".
Day 260 Maroon 5 was originally named Kara's Flowers which sung the unforgettable Soap Disco.
Day 261 Elwood Edwards is the voice of AOL's "You got mail"
Day 262 The band Lynyrd Skynyrd got it's name from a high school gym teacher named Leonard Skinner.
Day 263 Leon the Lobster was saved from the grocery store and now is a YouTube sensation.
Day 264 LatinX is used to refer to the Latin men and women.
Day 265 Popeye was originally a throwaway character introduced in 1929 in the Oyl family comic strip.
Day 266 KISS had the cover song "Then She Kissed Me" on the album Love Gun
Day 267 Prince's nickname as a kid was Skipper.
Day 268 There's no clear origination of the term "sleeping with" someone to refer to sex.
Day 269 The Promise by When in Rome was written by all 3 band members and was inspired by a breakup a band member had recently gone through.
Day 270 The Masters Tournament was originally called the Augusta National Invitation Tournament from 1934-1938.
Day 271 Ed Sullivan was in London’s Heathrow airport Oct 31, 1963 when he saw 1,500 fans waiting for the Beatles to arrive back from tour which led to him booking them on the show.
Day 272 Ampersand came from the Latin per se and when describing a letter that could also be a word (like A).
Day 273 The Sammies (nickname for the Samuel J Heyman Service to America Medals) are the Oscars for federal government employees.
Day 274 Ronald Reagan was the first to sign no fault divorce into law in CA in 1969.
Day 275 The country of Bhutan measures Gross National Happiness rather than Gross Domestic Product.
Day 276 Black Pete is part of the Dutch holiday Sinterklaas which includes people putting black paint on their face.
Day 277 During Ramadan, menstruating women do not need to observe daily fasting.
Day 278 Pleather refers to fake or plastic leather.
Day 279 The K Pop group BTS derived its acronym from its Korean name, Bangtan Sonyeondan which means "Bulletproof Boy Scouts".
Day 280 Restaurants generally price a glass of wine at the retail cost of the bottle to them.
Day 281 Nike's initial 3 year sales goal of the Air Jordan sneaker in 1984 was $3MM, they sold $126 million in year one alone.
Day 282 Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus began with knowing it rhymed with atrocious.
Day 283 Florida is the flattest state in the US.
Day 284 Woke as guidance first showed up in a song by Lead Belly folk and blues musician/singer in 1938 as "stay woke".
Day 285 An ectopic pregnancy is when a fertilized egg implants and grows outside the main cavity of the uterus.
Day 286 Ronald Reagan was originally a Democrat.
Day 287 Schubert’s Ave Maria was originally written for a completely different song named Ellen’s Third Song.
Day 288 Originally, in order to produce a deck of 52 playing cards the Ace of Spades had to have an approved insignia indicating the producer had paid proper taxes.
Day 289 Cello is short for violocello which means "little violone" or "little big viola".
Day 290 Cinco de Mayo is not a recognized holiday in Mexico and is generally not celebrated there.
Day 291 The baby delivering myth of storks started in Europe as it aligned with summer solstice marriages.
Day 292 Mother's Day was started by a childless, unmarried woman named Anna Jarvis in 1908.
Day 293 The Cincinatti Reds founded in 1869 are the oldest professional baseball franchise.
Day 294 Rich Strike, who won the Kentucky Derby, was claimed (or purchased) by his owner for $30,000 and broke a tie on the claim with a "shake" or dice roll with 5 other claimants.
Day 295 The term Mother Nature was first used in modern Europe in England in 1266 because the Greek natura means birth.
Day 296 The iconic spoken intro to Kiss and Say Goodbye ("This has got to be the saddest day of my life...") by the Manhattans was not played by pop stations.
Day 297 Wendy Melvoin wrote the intro and guitar chords to the song Purple Rain.
Day 298 George Carlin was arrested in Milwaukee at Summerfest in 1972 for performing his 7 words you can't say on television routine.
Day 299 It's not the Toronto Maple Leaves Candaian soldiers wore a maple leaf on their arm band and Conn Smythe who named them though calling them the Leaves would disrespect the soldiers.
Day 300 The writer of the song Mandy made up a story about the song being about a dog because he was pissed by a middle of the night call about the song to find who she was.
Day 301 One of the members of the rap group Geto Boys Bushwick Bill was 3 feet 8 inches tall
Day 302 Bible means book.
Day 303 The number of justices on the Supreme Court ranged from 5-10 changing 6 times until settling on 9 in 1869.
Day 304 The word pornography derives from the Greek porni (prostitute) and graphein (to write).
Day 305 Dracula's name comes from Dracul and the a means "son of".
day 306 Stan is word combining stalker and fan.
Day 307 Barry Manilow's original name was Barry Pincus.
Day 308 10 of the original 13 1932 founding schools in the SEC and 6 of the original 7 1896 founding schools of the Big 10 are still in it.
Day 309 The first fireworks display was July 4, 1977 in Philadelphia.
Day 310 Thomas Crapper created the tank refill innovation in the toilet in the late 19th century exponentially improving it.
Day 311 A group of pandas is called an embarrassment of pandas.
Day 312 Pat Riley is 6 ft 4 in tall.
Day 313 Old cars are drivern off a 300 foot cliff every July in Glacier View, Alaska.
Day 314 4 of the 7 days of the week are named after Gods.
Day 315 New Edition's band name referred to how they wanted to be a new edition of the Jackson 5.
Day 316 Wimbledon didn't allow ball girls until 1977 and didn't allow them on Centre Court until 1985.
Day 317 A gerontocracy is a state, society or group run by old people.
Day 318 Michael Jackson's final Number 1 Hit "You are not Alone" was written by R Kelly.
Day 319 Steiff Louis Vuitton Teddy Bear is worth $2.1 Million making it the most expensive teddy bear ever.
Day 320 BA Baracus of the A Team was terrified of flying (pteromerhanophobia).
Day 321 Former GS Warrior Anthony Morrow holds the summer league single game scoring record with 47 points.
Day 322 Barry Bremen, the guy who snuck in to a bunch of sporting events in the 70's & 80's fathered 3 dozen kids through sperm donations.
Day 323 Tony Siricco (Paulie) from The Sopranos protected Robert Iler (AJ) on the set.
Day 324 SF Giants pitcher Gaylord Perry hit a home run 30-ish minutes after the first ever moon landing.
Day 325 Max Lurie was reading an article on treating tuberculosis when he came up with the idea for the first anti-depressant.
Day 326 The Bowerbird creates colorful and well organized designs to attract a mate.
Day 327 Searching for amphibians or reptiles is called Herping.
Day 328 The actor who played Longshanks in Braveheart was the shady art dealer in Silver Streak.
Day 329 Our interstate highways are numbered from bottom to top and from left to right numerically.
Day 330 In 1973 Yankee pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich not only swapped wives but entire families.
Day 331 The NCAA was originally founded (as the IAAUS) to combat athletes getting maimed and killed (19 or 20) playing football.
Day 332 The White Panthers were founded in 1968 in direct response to Huey Newton of the Black Panthers suggesting a group like it be founded.
Day 333 Nichelle Nichols and William Shatner had the first interracial kiss on American TV.
Day 334 Pickleball was invented by 2 Dads on vacation whose families were getting bored while they golfed.
Day 335 Vin Scully called The Catch in 1982 49ers victory over the Cowboys.
Day 336 Overdraft fees at US banks started widespread in the 1990's.
Day 337 Former NFL Defensive End Rosie Grier was RFK's bodyguard and was guarding his pregnant wife the night he was shot.
Day 338 The old man tying a scarf to steady his hand drinking in Barfly was an unscripted suggestion offered by the actor.
Day 339 Bill Russell was the first basketball player to jump when blocking shots.
Day 340 The Wizard of Oz was originally written as a political allegory of the turn of the century in America.
Day 341 The word cop for a police officer came from Anglo Saxon & Dutch verb to catch or capture in the 1100's.
Day 342 Black shirts go with light blue slacks and a pink shirt can go with a blue patterned sport coat.
Day 343 The star of Inside Llewyn Davis, ex Machina and A Very Violent Year are the same actor.
Day 344 In 1788 England's newspaper The Daily Universal Register changed its name to The Times, the first paper to use "Times".
Day 345 Gatorade is named after the Gators of University of Florida.
Day 346 The band Foreigner's original name was Trigger.
Day 347 When Bill Clinton was impeached 5 Democrats voted for it and 10 Republicans voted against it.
Day 348 Maitre d' is short for Maitre d'hotel which means "master of the house".
Day 349 The Bechdel Test measure the representation of women in fictional works (movies, books, TV, etc.).
Day 350 New York city makes it basketball rims by hand.
Day 351 Comedy Central will not air the Diversity Training episode from Season 1 of the Office.
Day 352 Data and Chunk from Goonies became life long friends and Data is now represented by Chunk.
Day 353 In 1786 Mordecai Lincoln saved Thomas Lincoln's life, Thomas was Abraham Lincoln's dad.
Day 354 Douglas Kenney helped write both Animal House and Caddyshack and died in August 1980.
Day 355 Rupert Holmes of The Pina Colada song fame's name was originally David Goldstein.
Day 356 The last US tennis player to win a major was Andy Roddick in 2003.
Day 357 Tod Bowman directed Freaks and was mentioned in David Bowie's song Diamond Dogs.
Day 358 Allee Willis was living on food stamps and broke until she wrote the song September for Earth Wind & Fire.
Day 359 Crazy Train by Ozzy Ozbourne has really deep lyrics.
Day 360 Folks is the most inclusive word possible to describe all humans.
Day 361 The lead singer of Florence and the Machine saw a rainbow colored painting which inspired her to create the iconic Dog Days are Over
Day 362 The word Senate is derived from the Roman word Senatus related to Senex meaning "elder" or "old man".
Day 363 Hockey goalie Rogie Vachon originally backed up the photogenic Gump Worsley.
Day 364 In 1950 Penn (ABC) and Notre Dame (Dumont Television Network) were among the first to broadcast their games regionally.
Day 365 Mercury retrograde is an optical illusion which means it looks as if the planet is moving backwards from our view here on earth.
Day 366 Poodles are desirable to cross breed with because they come in 3 sizes.
Day 367 Digger Phelps' father gave him his nickname because he was a mortician in Beacon, NY.
Day 368 Mafia hit men drop the gun when they shoot someone because they don't want to be found with it.
Day 369 The first documented use of the getting on the bandwagon idea was from Teddy Roosevelt.
Day 370 To test the vagus nerve a doctor may use a soft cotton swab to tickle the back of the throat to test the gag reflex.
Day 371 Lucille Ball is the reason Star Trek got on the air.
Day 372 I didn't think I would do thiis 365 times.
