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National Park WebRangers are kids who learn about the parks by solving mysteries and puzzles, playing games, and gathering secret words online.
Most common name in nursery rhymes: Jack.
In 21 states, spanking is still a legal form of punishment in schools.
Igor Stravinsky said his music was “best understood by children and animals.”
The melody to “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” is from a 1761 French song. (The lyrics date to 1806.)
Early European jesters made balloons out of animal bladders and intestines.
All-time best-selling lunch box: the Walt Disney School Bus (9 million sold between 1961 and 1973).
Sesame Street ’s Big Bird has a teddy bear named Radar.
First lunch box character from a TV show: Hopalong Cassidy (1950). The design sold 600,000 in its first year.
The first merry-go-round appeared at a fair in Philippapolis, Turkey, in 1620.
In one of their comic books, Batman and Robin traveled through time to save Marco Polo.
Comic superhero Captain Marvel’s appearance was modeled after actor Fred MacMurray.
The comic strip Peanuts was originally called Li’l Folks .
Who are the Springfield Isotopes, Shelbyville Shelbyvillains, and Salem Boulevardiers? Minor-league baseball teams on The Simpsons .
Since 1959, more than 105 million yards of fabric have been used to create Barbie clothes.
Comic Relief
In the 1960s, DC Comics and Marvel Comics jointly trademarked the term “Super Hero.”
Donald Duck was Mussolini’s favorite cartoon character.
World’s most valuable comic: Action Comics #1 (1938), which introduced Superman. Cover price: 10¢. Present-day value for a copy in mint condition: $600,000.
Superman’s full Earth name: Clark Joseph Kent.
The 1960s comic book character Eclipso was called “The Genius Who Fought Himself.”
First published drawing by Charles Schulz: a 1937 cartoon for Ripley’s Believe It or Not .
Spider-Man’s first appearance came in Marvel Comics’ Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962).
Salvador Dalí and Walt Disney once collaborated on a cartoon called Destino . They never finished it.
First female superhero to have her own comic book: Wonder Woman (1942).
Who was Hoyt Curtin? He wrote the theme songs for The Flintstones , The Jetsons , and The Yogi Bear Show .
Popeye began as a comic strip in 1929.
Shaquille O’Neal’s favorite superhero: Superman. (He even has a Superman tattoo.)
Editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant founded the Bad Golfers Association in 1994.
Superman once gave Batman a ring of green kryptonite so that if Superman ever lost his mind and became a danger to humans, Batman could use the ring to defeat him.
Food Bites
Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik once ate volcanic sand “to cleanse his system.”
Ted Nugent makes and sells his own line of beef jerky called Gonzo Meat Biltong.
Actor Vincent Price was also an author and a gourmet cook. In 1965, he published his own cookbook, A Treasury of Great Recipes .
Fletcher Davis, who once owned a diner in Athens, Texas, claimed he invented the hamburger in the 1880s.
Pro golfer Amy Alcott’s day job: short-order cook.
Alexander Graham Bell preferred to sip his soup through a glass straw.
Napoléon Bonaparte carried chocolate with him on all of his military campaigns.
Both Hitler and Mussolini were vegetarians.
Orville Wright numbered his chickens’ eggs so he could eat them in the order they were laid.
The Joy of Cooking was first self-published by Irma Rombauer in 1931.
Singer Chaka Khan once came out with a line of chocolates called “Chakalates.”
Charles Lindbergh’s only food on his transatlantic flight: Four sandwiches.
Ernest Hemingway’s favorite food while writing: peanut butter and onion sandwiches.
In 1954, Alice B. Toklas (longtime partner of writer Gertrude Stein) published a cookbook and memoir called The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook . Its most famous recipe was for “Hashisch Fudge,” which included a mixture of fruit, nuts, spices, and “canibus sativa,” or
National Park WebRangers are kids who learn about the parks by solving mysteries and puzzles, playing games, and gathering secret words online.
Most common name in nursery rhymes: Jack.
In 21 states, spanking is still a legal form of punishment in schools.
Igor Stravinsky said his music was “best understood by children and animals.”
The melody to “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” is from a 1761 French song. (The lyrics date to 1806.)
Early European jesters made balloons out of animal bladders and intestines.
All-time best-selling lunch box: the Walt Disney School Bus (9 million sold between 1961 and 1973).
Sesame Street ’s Big Bird has a teddy bear named Radar.
First lunch box character from a TV show: Hopalong Cassidy (1950). The design sold 600,000 in its first year.
The first merry-go-round appeared at a fair in Philippapolis, Turkey, in 1620.
In one of their comic books, Batman and Robin traveled through time to save Marco Polo.
Comic superhero Captain Marvel’s appearance was modeled after actor Fred MacMurray.
The comic strip Peanuts was originally called Li’l Folks .
Who are the Springfield Isotopes, Shelbyville Shelbyvillains, and Salem Boulevardiers? Minor-league baseball teams on The Simpsons .
Since 1959, more than 105 million yards of fabric have been used to create Barbie clothes.
Comic Relief
In the 1960s, DC Comics and Marvel Comics jointly trademarked the term “Super Hero.”
Donald Duck was Mussolini’s favorite cartoon character.
World’s most valuable comic: Action Comics #1 (1938), which introduced Superman. Cover price: 10¢. Present-day value for a copy in mint condition: $600,000.
Superman’s full Earth name: Clark Joseph Kent.
The 1960s comic book character Eclipso was called “The Genius Who Fought Himself.”
First published drawing by Charles Schulz: a 1937 cartoon for Ripley’s Believe It or Not .
Spider-Man’s first appearance came in Marvel Comics’ Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962).
Salvador Dalí and Walt Disney once collaborated on a cartoon called Destino . They never finished it.
First female superhero to have her own comic book: Wonder Woman (1942).
Who was Hoyt Curtin? He wrote the theme songs for The Flintstones , The Jetsons , and The Yogi Bear Show .
Popeye began as a comic strip in 1929.
Shaquille O’Neal’s favorite superhero: Superman. (He even has a Superman tattoo.)
Editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant founded the Bad Golfers Association in 1994.
Superman once gave Batman a ring of green kryptonite so that if Superman ever lost his mind and became a danger to humans, Batman could use the ring to defeat him.
Food Bites
Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik once ate volcanic sand “to cleanse his system.”
Ted Nugent makes and sells his own line of beef jerky called Gonzo Meat Biltong.
Actor Vincent Price was also an author and a gourmet cook. In 1965, he published his own cookbook, A Treasury of Great Recipes .
Fletcher Davis, who once owned a diner in Athens, Texas, claimed he invented the hamburger in the 1880s.
Pro golfer Amy Alcott’s day job: short-order cook.
Alexander Graham Bell preferred to sip his soup through a glass straw.
Napoléon Bonaparte carried chocolate with him on all of his military campaigns.
Both Hitler and Mussolini were vegetarians.
Orville Wright numbered his chickens’ eggs so he could eat them in the order they were laid.
The Joy of Cooking was first self-published by Irma Rombauer in 1931.
Singer Chaka Khan once came out with a line of chocolates called “Chakalates.”
Charles Lindbergh’s only food on his transatlantic flight: Four sandwiches.
Ernest Hemingway’s favorite food while writing: peanut butter and onion sandwiches.
In 1954, Alice B. Toklas (longtime partner of writer Gertrude Stein) published a cookbook and memoir called The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook . Its most famous recipe was for “Hashisch Fudge,” which included a mixture of fruit, nuts, spices, and “canibus sativa,” or
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