“Useless Friday Info”

Take a deep breath and inhale all the wisdom that is about to be imparted in you’re direction.

It’s time for “Useless Friday Info”!

Here we go:

“The real St. Nicholas lived in Turkey where he was bishop of the town of Myra in the early 4th century.  It was the Dutch who first made him into a Christmas gift-giver.  Dutch settlers brought him to America where his name eventually became the familiar Santa Claus.”

“The tradition of making New Year’s resolutions dates back to the early Babylonians.  Their most popular resolution was to return borrowed farm equipment.”

“The average American child sees about 200,00 acts of violence on television by the age of 18.”

“In the Middle East heels were added to shoes to lift the foot from the burning sand.  In Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries heels were always colored red.”

“Sneakers earned their nickname because they were so quiet that a person who was wearing them could sneak up on someone.”

“Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch television for three hours.”

“Thomas Jeferson was the only President to walk to and from his inaugural.  He was also the first to be inaugurated at the Capitol (1801).”

“A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel (that’s equal to six large fuel trucks that you see on the highway).”

“Lyndon Johnson was the first (and so far) only President to be sworn in by a woman.  He was sworn in by U.S. District Judge Sarah T. Hughes in 1963.”