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Interesting Facts - Page 239
1191
The Belgian national football team uses English as their lingua franca.
1192
In English we say goodbye, short for "God be with ye". In Spanish they say adios, short for "I commend you to God". In Italian they say ciao, which is short for "I am your slave".
1193
Surinder Singh Bajwa, the former deputy mayor of Delhi, was killed by monkeys while in office.
1194
In 2024, the average dairy cow in the U.S. produced an incredible 12 tons of milk a year. That's up by more than 30% just since 2000.
1195
In 1760, French astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil left for India from France to observe the Transit of Venus. Unfortunately, he got there three weeks after it had happened, decided to stay in India for eight years to wait for next one, missed it due to bad weather, caught dysentery on the boat home, and then got back to France (11 years after setting off) to find that his family had declared him legally dead and taken all of his money and estate while his wife had remarried and he'd been replaced on the Royal Academy of Sciences.
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Credit X user @RomanHelmetGuy for 1192.
Credit @Freestater for 1193.
Credit @howdiditend13 for 1194.
Still pretty shocking and crazy though.
Edit: No, he was in office not in his office. Wiki says he was killed at his residence.
1. Robert Early [8 Oct 1849 - 9 Oct 1960] could've met Frederic Chopin and listened to the first Techno release in the same lifetime.
2. John Francklow [30 May 1835 - 15 Oct 1944] could've met James Madison and listened to Rock N' Roll in the same lifetime.
3. Narcissa Rickman [13 Sep 1855 - 21 Oct 1968] could've met John Brown and listened to Hip-Hop in the same lifetime.
4. Delina Filkins [4 May 1815 - 4 Dec 1928] could've met Paul Revere and listened to electronic music in the same lifetime.
5. James King [15 Nov 1854 - 5 Jun 1967] could've gotten down to some Grunge music and met Martin Van Buren in the same lifetime (at an old enough age to remember it, too)
I'll provide sources for the songs for anyone interested
Hip hop was 70s not 80s
I believe rock n roll didn't exist until the 50s
Techno was invented in the 80s
Hip-Hop: Prelude by The Millenium OR Here Comes The Judge by Pigmeat Markham (both 68')
Rock n' roll: Beams of Heaven by Sister Rosetta Sharpe (1939)
If you're picky about your Rock N' Roll though, then theres no denying that "Strange Things Happening Every Day" (1945) is rock n roll.
Techno: Night and Day by Raymond Scott (60')
Rock Awhile: Goree Carter (49')
Strange Things Happening Every Day (Sister Rosetta Sharpe, 45')
The Fat Man - Fats Domino (49')
Good Rockin' Tonight (versions by Roy Brown, 1947, or Wynone Harris, 1948)
Arthur Crudup - That's All Right [1947]
Drinkin Wine' Spo-Dee-O-Dee (49')
Etc.
Please listen to these songs. They're pretty cool to look back at!
And by the way, pleaseee don't call it AI, alright? Makes me kinda low-spirited or sad to find that people think that its AI.
Louie Louie is generally thought of as garage rock though, not grunge. I think of Neil Young as being the godfather of grunge, obviously pre 1989.
On a side note, many blues and jazz songs used "rock" as a slang term, so it doesn't really mean anything just to have the term "rock" in the title. Good Rockin' Tonight is pretty blatantly an upbeat blues song to me.
Jeanne Calment (1875-1997) could have met Ulysses S. Grant and listened to Tupac in the same lifetime
No stories seem to be substantiated but also haven't been debunked either.
Kennedy was elected in 1960
Kennedy was shot from a storage building
Lincoln was shot in a theater
Kennedy's assassin was apprehended in a theater
Lincoln's assassin was apprehended/killed in a barn (storage building)
Kennedy had a secretary called Lincoln
they were both shot on Friday and both succeeded by Johnson