Winona Ryder was born, Winona Laura Horowitz, in Winona, Minnesota on October 29th (and, in the words of Robert Frost, “a diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age”).
Why Winona, Of Course!
Where in the World?
What Minnesota town was actor Winona Ryder born in?
More Than A Baker’s Dozen
Neptune has 14 known moons, with Triton, the largest, discovered on October 10, 1846, by William Lassell – 17 days after Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet itself. Triton is the only large moon in the solar system that circles its planet in a direction opposite to the planet’s rotation and scientists speculate that it might have once been an independent object that was captured by Neptune’s gravitational pull.
Because Neptune was named for the Roman god of the sea, its moons are named for various lesser Greek mythological sea gods and nymphs and for those astronomer wanna-be’s out there, from closest to farthest away from the planet, they are: Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, Galatea, Larissa, Hippocamp, Proteus, Triton, Nereid, Halimede, Sao, Laomedeia, Psamathe, and Neso.
Neptune, the Planet
How many moons does the planet Neptune have?
Oh Canada!
The country with the most natural lakes, by far, is Canada!
Great Lakes
What country has the most natural lakes?
Perry Como
Although the RIAA gave an unofficial record that was sprayed gold to Glenn Miller in 1942, on March 14, 1958, the RIAA awarded its first official Gold Record record to Perry Como for his hit single “Catch A Falling Star.”
Going for the Gold
What musician was awarded the very first official gold record by the Recording Industry Association of America?
“O” For Goodness Sake
A person with O Negative blood type is referred to as a universal donor and is pretty rare. Only 7% of the population have O Negative blood.
Vampire’s Love This
A person with which blood type is known as a universal donor?