As I recall, Cleveland wound up with a top plate made of vulcanized rubber after that.
Edit: I should have clicked on the link, because it says exactly that.
The name of the company that provides the replacements in the cartoon “The Replacements” is “Fleemco”. Is that you Mr Fleem?
Not unless she comes back as a zombie!
“Braaaaaaaaiiiiiinnnnnssssss in the Wind”?
Olivia Newton-John, who had a hit with “Let’s Get Physical” is the granddaughter of Max Born. He won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics.
The last US President to own a slave was Ulysses S. Grant.
(There is no truth to the rumor the Olivia Newton-John’s father is named Isaac Newton-John.)
In the Kimba the White Lion Box Set, Disc 3 I believe, Kimba is taking a tour of the Hall of The Future at the World’s Fair.
In the Robotics exhibit, look at the last robot on the left.
It’s Astro Boy!!!1
The first President to have been born in a hospital was Jimmy Carter.
Another Kevin Bacon one!
Lots of people – planners, architects, geographers, etc. – are familiar with the coffee-table book Design of Cities, by mid-20th-C. Philadephia urban designer Edmund Bacon. I grew up with the book on my parents’ bookcase, and it surely influenced my lifelong interests and career decisions.
I just found out that the author is Kevin Bacon’s father! Does this give many urban planners and the like a potentially lower KB number?
Actress Kim Stanley, who played Pancho Barnes in The Right Stuff, was the narrator in To Kill a Mockingbird.
The Phoenix from Osamu Tezuka’s incredible manga Phoenix makes a guest appearance in one of the original Astro Boy episodes. I believe Dr. Eliphun’s descendant makes a guest appearance in that episode as well.
Both Winston Churchill and Margaret Mitchell were once hit by taxis (Churchill in NYC, Mitchell in Atlanta). Churchill was injured but lived; Mitchell died.
My favorite bit of trivia is about Thomas Midgley JR. He was one of the scientists in the US that introduced lead to gasoline to reduce the ping or knocking effect from motors. He is also the one that invented CFCs as a propellant in canisters. So he inadvertently caused cancer in millions of people worldwide as well as contributing to the hole in the ozone.
Tezuka was very fond of this. He called it his Star System.
I used to teach clients about automotive emissions and would bring up that “fun fact.” Also how his last invention ultimately lead to his death.
Both “Jet” magazine and BET (cable channel) were founded by men named Robert Johnson. Jet by Robert E., and BET by Robert L.
While everyone has heard of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and murder, I recently read daughter Reeve Lindbergh’s memoir “Under a Wing” in which she talks about the death of her own baby son Jonathan from a convulstion replated to infant encephelitist. She was staying with her mother at the time, and after the baby was found dead and the proper people were called, Anne Morrow Lindberg insisted that the two of them just sit by the crib with the baby’s body in it.
Reeve wanted to be somewhere–anywhere–else, but since she trusted her mother’s instincts, the two of them were just sitting by the crib. Finally Anne said “I never got to see my baby after he died. I never got to sit with him like this.”
In that moment Reeve felt a moemtn of pure pride amidst her sorrow that she could give her mother with her grandson what she never had with her son.
According to Steve Martin, the Mona Lisa was painted with just one brush stroke
Sir Christopher Lee sort of freaked Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson when he told him quite matter of factly, à propos a fighting scene : “I know the sound a man makes when he’s stabbed in the back”.
Lee, before becoming a scary old man, served in the British Special Forces during WW2. Which probably made him a scary young man at the time.
In 1895, the only two cars in the state of Ohio collided with each other.
Ohio is the only U.S. state to have a non-rectangular flag: Flag of Ohio - Wikipedia