Why is polling day on a Tuesday in the US?


It started in New York State.


Tuesday was chosen because it would allow people to observe the Sabbath


Travel on Monday; Vote on Tuesday and get back by Wednesday which was traditionally Market Day.

Mary Shelley allegedly lost her virginity on her mother’s grave.

George Washington was the only president who did not represent a political party.


And we can see how "that" turned out. :nope:

In 1993, Rod Stewart hosted the largest free concert.

It wasn’t until 1856 that the US Congress removed property ownership as a requirement to vote in elections.

Hedy Lamarr was a Hollywood actress in the 1940s and 1950s, and she was considered "the most beautiful woman in the world" during her time. She began her acting career in Austria and became notorious for being the first woman to simulate an orgasm on screen in 1933. It was during this time that she also got married to Friedrich Mandl, a Vienna-based arms dealer with ties to Mussolini and later Hitler.

The marriage did not last long. In her own words, she wrote, "I knew very soon that I could never be an actress while I was his wife... He was the absolute monarch in his marriage... I was like a doll. I was like a thing, some object of art which had to be guarded and imprisoned, having no mind, no life of its own." According to her autobiography, she disguised herself as one of the maids and managed to flee to Paris. Others say she convinced her husband to wear all of her jewelry for a dinner party and then disappeared afterwards.

She eventually booked a liner to New York, where she met the head of MGM, who was impressed enough to offer her a $500-a-week contract to work as an actress. In 1938, she arrived in Hollywood and went on to star in several movies, working with the likes of Clark Gable and James Stewart.

Beyond her acting career, Lamarr was also a scientist and co-patented spread-spectrum technology during World War II to prevent the Nazis from jamming navy torpedoes. However, her invention was rejected and wouldn't be implemented until the Cold War in 1962. The technology would eventually be used in developing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technology.

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Metallica is the only band to have played on all seven continents. (Yes, including Antarctica.)

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Music has some pretty interesting effects on living things. It makes plants grow faster and cows produce more milk.

Prince is credited with playing 27 different instruments on his debut album.

It’s been calculated that the average woman will “eat” about four pounds of lipstick throughout the course of her life.

Heels were originally created for men, but women adopted them in the 1600s to show status.

The country of Russia is bigger than Pluto.

Nearly 10 percent of all dreams include sex.

Bears don’t poop during hibernation.