Solved it! Doi!
Nov. 1st mind blowing random thought of the day: In 1777, Morocco became the first country in the world to formally acknowledge the United States as an independent nation, and in 1786 under Sultan Mohammed III, became the first African state and the first Muslim state to sign a treaty with the US.
Nov. 2nd mind blowing random thought of the day: Approx. 8,000 people are injured by musical instruments every year.
Classic!
A lot fewer people are crushed by falling grand pianos than my childhood suggested would be the case.
Yeah, where’s the company that sells cases of TNT to just anyone?
Nov. 3rd mind blowing random thought of the day: An arctophile is someone who collects, or is very fond of teddy bears.
Nov. 4th mind blowing random thought of the day: The city of Los Angeles’s full name is ‘El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles del Rio de Porciuncula,’ which translates to mean “The Town of Our Lady the Queen of Angels on the River Porciuncula.”
Nov. 5th mind blowing random thought of the day: It is illegal for a commoner to die in either House of Parliament in the United Kingdom. For anyone who dies in a royal palace is eligible for a state funeral.
I bet it’s a capital offense.
Nov. 6th mind blowing random thought of the day: A cat has 5 toes on its front paws, but only 4 toes on its back paws.
If you hold in your fart then you breathe it out of your mouth. True story.
Nov. 7th mind blowing random thought of the day: Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks during WWI.
Ha, gotta be something to say there, but I just can’t find it Rob!
Nov. 8th mind blowing random thought of the day: The kea parrot of New Zealand is the only non-mammal known to show signs of emotionally contagious vocalization. Specific calls of the bird trigger playful emotions in other keas, just as laughter does for humans.
How many of us just tried this? I did! It’s true… :)
Humming while plugging nose, that is.
Nov. 9th mind blowing random thought of the day: “The Galop Inferno,” better known as the “Can-Can,” is part of a composition by Jacques Offenbach to the 1858 opera Orpheus in the Underworld, in which the title character descends down into Hell.
Nov. 10th mind blowing random thought of the day: A blank headstone in Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland topped with U.S. pennies marks the grave of John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.