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1. Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When
he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried
in one.
2. Janis Joplin left $2,500 in her will for her friends
to “have a ball after I’m gone.”
3. In 1999, the U.S. government paid the
Zapruder family $16 million for the film of JFK’s
assassination.
4. When three-letter airport codes became
standard, airports that had been using two
letters simply added an X.
5. Marie Curie’s notebooks are still radioactive.
Researchers hoping to view them must sign a
disclaimer.
6. Reed Hastings was inspired to start Netflix
after racking up a $40 late fee on a VHS copy of
Apollo 13.
7. After Leonardo da Vinci’s death, King Francis I
of France hung the Mona Lisa in his bathroom.
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1. Chinaware
5. Powder room
9. Outside buzzer
10. Treat unkindly (4,2)
12. Dully aching
13. 16th of pound
14. Regrets
16. Inherent nature
19. Trembles
21. Shafts of light
24. Mindful
25. Avid party-giver
27. Desire for water
28. Gain degree
29. Baton races
30. Adopted (policy)
1. Military trainees
2. Unpleasant whiffs
3. Skewered meat
4. Car club meetings
6. Fatefully
7. Comparing
8. Offered
11. Giant monster
15. Futilely
17. Unlawful occupier
18. Spacious & splendid
20. Passable (2-2)
21. Best-ever times
22. Rolled leaf smokes
23. Slay by guillotine
26. Of hearing
8. The medical term for ice cream induced ’brain
freeze’ is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.
9. If you start counting at one and spell out the
numbers as you go, you won’t use the letter
“A” until you reach 1,000.
10. Winston Churchill’s mother was born in
Brooklyn.
11. 12+1 = 11+2, and “twelve plus one” is an
anagram of “eleven plus two.”
12. Nutella was invented during WWII, when an
Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into
chocolate to extend his chocolate ration.
13. The average four year old child asks over 400
questions per day.
14. A standard scientific calculator has over
six times more processing power than the
computer that landed Apollo 11 on the moon.
15. The total weight of all the ants on earth is
greater than the total weight of all the humans