The popular bar snack CornNuts aren’t nuts at all, but deep-fried corn kernels. Originally a Latin American food, Albert Holloway introduced them in the U.S. in the 1930s.
Sterling Holloway was the voice of Kaa the snake in Disney’s The Jungle Book. He also voice Winnie the Pooh.
American Widow, a book by Alissa Torres, tells the story of the 9/11 death of her husband Eddie, a trader at Cantor Fitzgerald, where he began a job on Sept. 10, 2001.
U.S. Air Force jets sent aloft on 9-11-01 over Washington, D.C. were initially sent up in such a rush that they were unarmed, and the pilots were told they might have to ram any hijacked passenger jet if ordered to.
My three children, two boys and the youngest a girl then-aged 17, 15 and 13, flew from Portland, Maine to Boston, and then from Boston to San Francisco, at about the same time that Mohamed Atta did on the very next day fly from Portland to Boston, and then out of Boston on American Flight 11. My kids flew on 9/10/2001.
Wow! Just a bit too close for comfort…
In play: In 1851, Maine became the first state law to prohibit the sale of alcohol except for “medicinal, mechanical or manufacturing purposes.” 18 states quickly passed similar laws. Portland, Maine, was a center for protests against the law, and the protests culminated on June 2, 1855 in the Portland Rum Riot. When protesters failed to disperse, Mayor Neal Dow ordered the militia to fire. One man was killed and seven were wounded. Following the Portland Rum Riot, the Maine law was repealed in 1856.
In 1884, Charles Dow composed his first stock average, which contained nine railroads and two industrial companies that appeared in the Customer’s Afternoon Letter, a daily two-page financial news bulletin which was the precursor to The Wall Street Journal. Dow calculated his first average purely of industrial stocks on May 26, 1896, creating what is now known as the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Davy Jones covered the Sandra Boynton song: I want to be your Personal Penguin.
Thanks, Davy. 
In 2014, Sandra Bullock was ranked No. 2 (after Jennifer Lawrence) on Forbes’s list of most powerful actresses, and was also honored with the Decade of Hotness Award by Spike Guys’ Choice Awards.
Sandra Bullock, born into a musical family and with some musical talent herself. (her father was a voice coach), has said that she hates musicals and vows to never participate in one.
Sandra Bullock has been a notable public supporter of the American Red Cross, having donated $1 million to the organization at least five times. Her mother is German and Bullock speaks German, having learned it in childhood.
The Blue Cross was originally set up not primarily to provide health care, but as a way for hospitals to keep a steady stream of income throughout the year.
The Blue Sun Corporation is a shadowy, omnipresent interstellar conglomerate in the Joss Whedon Firefly 'verse.
The Blue Whale of Catoosa OK is one of the more kitschy sights along US Route 66.
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The blue whale is the largest animal known to have ever existed.
One of the largest land dinosaurs, the sauropod Argentinosaurus, weighed about 180,000 pounds.
The megatherium, a giant ground sloth native to the Americas, went extinct at approximately the same time as the appearance of the first humans to cross the Bering Strait land bridge. It was the size of modern elephants, and was exceeded in size during its lifetime only by a few species of mammoths.
Speaking of whom, mammoths were still extant when the Pyramids were built.
The Iditarod Sled Dog Race relives the history of a trail that was used by miners to reach the gold fields along the Bering Sea. The trail gained national exposure as teams relayed across the route to bring medicine to Nome to halt the 1925 diphtheria outbreak.
Susan Butcher, a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was the second female musher (after Libby Riddles) to win the Iditarod, and the first musher of any gender to win it four out of five years. In 1985, the year of Riddles’ first win, Butcher had to withdraw when two of her dogs were killed by a crazed moose.
The Sphinx is said to have guarded the entrance to the Greek city of Thebes, asking a riddle to travelers to allow them passage. The riddle was “Which creature has one voice and yet becomes four-footed and two-footed and three-footed?” She strangled and devoured anyone who could not answer. Oedipus solved the riddle by answering: “Man—who crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and then uses a walking stick in old age”.