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January
2nd Celebrity Birthdays
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Tia Carrere (1967)
Cuba Gooding Jr (1968)
Tricia Helfer (1974 - PCM Interview)
Christy Turlington (1969)
Kate Bosworth (1983)
Roger Miller (1936-1992)
Gabrielle Carteris (1961)
Jack Hanna (1947)
Isaac Asimov (1920) |
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January
2nd's Daily Joke
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These four friends were so confident that the
weekend before finals, they decided to go up to Dallas and
party with some friends up there. They had a great time. However,
after all the partying, they slept all day Sunday and didn't
make it back to Austin until early Monday morning.
Rather than taking the final then, they decided to find their
professor after the final and explain to him why they missed
it.
They explained that they had gone to Dallas for the weekend
with the plan to come back and study but, unfortunately, they
had a flat tire on the way back, didn't have a spare, and
couldn't get help for a long time. As a result, they missed
the final.
The Professor thought it over and then agreed they could make
up the final the following day. The guys were elated and relieved.
They studied that night and went in the next day at the time
the professor had told them. He placed them in separate rooms
and handed each of them a test booklet, and told them to begin.
They looked at Problem # 1, worth 5 points. It was something
simple about free radical formation. "Cool," they
thought at the same time, each one in his separate room. "This
is going to be easy."
Each finished the problem and then turned the page. On the
second page was written: (For 95 points):
# 2. Which tire? |
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January
2nd's Fun Fact
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Asimov's laws of Robotics:
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction,
allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings,
except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such
protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
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January
2nd's Other Fun Facts
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► 1788 - Georgia
became the 4th state to ratify U.S. constitution.
► 1839 - First known picture of the moon was taken by
Louis Daguerre.
► 1834 - Pennsylvania opened its state liquor stores.
► 1938 - Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded.
► 1947 - Mahatma Gandhi's march for peace in East-Bengali.
► 1959 - U.S.S.R. launches Mechta, Luna 1, for first
lunar fly-by and first solar orbit.
► 1960 - John Reynolds set the age of solar system at
4,950,000,000 years (so in 2012, it is 4,950,000,052)
► 1970 - Official US population is 203,302,031 people.
► 1974 - 55 MPH speed limit imposed by the Richard Nixon
administration.
► 2008 - Oil reached $100 per barrel for the first time. |
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