KNOWLEDGE IS ALL YOU NEED IN THIS CRUEL WORLD

Was Joel feeling better?
On his deathbed, writer Joel Chandler Harris (1856-1931), creator of the "Uncle Remus" stories, was asked whether he was feeling better. His last words were, "I am about the extent of a tenth of a gnat's eyebrow better."

How deadly was WWI to Britain's youth?
One out of every three British males between the ages of 17 and 35 was killed in World War I.


Which dwarves didn't make it?
No one can say just when Walt Disney began to think about undertaking his biggest project to date, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but by the summer of 1934, his ideas were beginning to take concrete form. An exploratory outline that he distributed to his animation staff, dated August 9, 1934, included the following discussion of the dwarfs' names: "The names which follow each suggest a type of character and the names will immediately identify the character in the minds of the audience." Some of the names that were considered then discarded included Scrappy, Doleful, Crabby, Wistful, Dumpy, Soulful, Tearful, Snappy, Helpful, Gaspy, Gloomy, Busy, Dirty, Awful, Dizzy, Shifty, and Biggy-Wiggy.

How did Egyptian women wear their hair?
In 1500 B.C. in Egypt, a shaved head was considered the ultimate in feminine beauty. Egyptian women removed every hair from their heads with special gold tweezers and polished their scalps to a high sheen with buffing cloths.

Who designed Nike's 'Swoosh?'
The Nike "swoosh" logo was designed by University of Oregon student Carolyn Davidson in 1964 — four years after business undergrad Phil Knight and track coach Bill Bowerman founded the company they originally called Blue Ribbon Sports. Ms. Davidson was paid $35 dollars for her design.