New Jersey Governor Chris Christie stands 5ft 11in tall and at one point weighed 298 pounds. If had stayed at that weight and been elected President, he would have been one of the heaviest Presidents ever.
However, he had lap band surgery and dropped about 100 pounds.
Little man.
In play: James Madison, at 5’4" and 100lbs and a BMI of 17.8, was our smallest president. Grover Cleveland, at 5’11" and 260lbs and a BMI of 36.31, was one of our heaviest. No other President had a BMI in the 30s; all other Presidents had BMIs less than 30 except for one in the 40s: William Taft, at 6’0" and 330lbs entering his second term, had a BMI then of 44.85.
Clinton lost 20lbs while in office.
http://www.mikeswashingtonwatch.com/archives/2007/05/presidential_height_weight_and.shtml
The original Broadway production of “The Odd Couple” featured Walter Matthau as Oscar Madison and Art Carney as Felix Ungar.
The Broadway musical Hamilton just set a record breaking 16 Tony nominations! The previous record of 15 nominations was shared by The Producers and Billy Elliot.
Hamilton Burger was the DA who was always bested in court by Perry Mason, who usually made Ham Burger out of him.
In 1992 when Rutgers professor Benjamin Barber coined the term “McWorld,” there were 12,700 McDonalds worldwide. Today there are over 33,000. Worldwide, every second of every single day, McDonalds sells more than 75 hamburgers. Every second.
In 2011, in the lower 48 United States, only one place was more than 100 miles from a McDonalds - that was some remote plains region in South Dakota.
Dammit, didn’t read the next page…my bad.
The McRib is a barbecue-flavored pork product sandwich periodically sold by the fast-food chain McDonald’s. It was first introduced to the McDonald’s menu in 1981, following test marketing the year before.
After poor sales, it was removed from the menu in 1985. The McRib was reintroduced in 1989, staying on the menu until 2005 in many countries. Since 2006, it has generally been made available for a short time each year in most markets where it is sold, typically during the fall season. However, it is a permanent menu item at McDonald’s restaurants in Germany.
The word “barbecue” originates from American Spanish barbacoa, from Arawakan (Haiti) barbakoa “framework of sticks,” the raised wooden structure the Indians used to either sleep on or cure meat. Sense of “outdoor meal of roasted meat or fish as a social entertainment” is from 1733; modern popular noun sense of “grill for cooking over an open fire” is from 1931. In Australia, the abbreviated form “barbie” is common.
Barbie Doll’s birthday is 09 March 1959, when inventor and Mattel Toys president Ruth Handler debuted the doll at the American International Toy Fair in New York City. Barbie’s appearance was inspired by a German doll named Bild Lilli, who in turn was based on a high-end call girl named Lilli in the comic strip Bild-Zeitung. The original German Bild Lilli doll was only sold in bars and tobacco stores. To adults, not to children. Ruth Handler saw th doll while on a trip, bought her, and brought her home.
When first sold, the Barbie Doll’s original outfit was a skimpy black-and-white striped bathing suit.
Lilli is a village in Anija Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia. located on the right bank of the Jägala River, about 4 km north of the town of Kehra. Lilli has a population of 118.
There are over 2,000 islands and islets in Estonia, while the Philippines has over 7,500 islands.
The world’s oldest flag, Denmark’s Dannebrog, is recorded on a seal from 1397. According to legend, the flag came into Danish possession during the Battle of Lyndanisse in 1219. The Danes were on a failing crusade in Estonia, but after praying to God a flag fell from the sky. After this event, Danish King Valdemar II went on to defeat the Estonians. The first recorded use of the flag appears one hundred years later.
80% of Danes belong to the state church, the Folkekirken, but only 28% of Danes believe in God and only 3% attend church regularly. The percentage who believe in God, although that is one of the lowest rates in Europe, is still higher than in Norway or Sweden.
The current record holder for the world’s tallest dog is a Great Dane named Zeus who stood 111.8 cm (44.0 in) at the shoulder before his death in September 2014.
The world’s smallest dog in February 2013 was a female chihuahua named Milly. Milly stood 3.8" tall. Milly was from Puert Rico.
Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Mexico, is not a port (puerto). It is an inland city named after Felipe Carrillo Puerto, a former Governor of Yucatán who was assassinated in 1924. Carrillo, as it is locally known, is a hotspot for birdwatching, located near an easily accessible habitat famous for it avian variety.
Mexico has had at least two Governors of Yucatán assassinated. Besides Felipe Carrillo Puerto in 1924, Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz, a former Governor of Yucatán, was assassinated in 1986.
At least one other Mexican governor was assassinated. Abraham González, Governor of Chihuahua, was assassinated in 1913.
Oxkutzcab, a city in Yucatan, despite its eye-chart-looking name, seems a more efficient way of saying “Place of ramon, tobacco, and honey”. The city pre-dates the Spanish conquest, and is built in the site of the Mayan city that preceded it.
Leo Carrillo, better known as Pancho, The Cisco Kid’s sidekick and a man of Castilian Spanish ancestry, served on California’s Beach & Parks commission and was instrumental in the acquisition of San Simeon from the estate of William Randolph Hearst. A state beach in Santa Monica, CA is named after him.