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Fascinating trivia facts joked that they were from Uncle Sam. The nickname was What Is The Most Common Birthday In The United
compiled by Stanley noticed by a local paper, and “Uncle Sam” quickly became States?
Morgenbesser associated with government business. If you were born on Sept. 9, you are far from alone. Sept.
Which Was The First Pizza Which Song Has Made The Most In Royalties? 9 is the most common birthday in the United States, followed
Chain In The United States? Happy Birthday to You is the top earner, with an closely by Sept. 19. Of the top 10 most common birthdays,
Pizza Hut is older than estimated $50 million in royalties. The happy birthday nine of them happen to be in September, with all of them
Domino’s by two years, song was originally composed in 1893 as Good Morning falling between Sept. 9 and 20. The data was collected by
and was officially the first to All by Patty Smith Hill, a kindergarten teacher. Happy looking at the average number of births per day from 1994
chain pizza restaurant in Birthday to You is the most recognized song in the English to 2014. For Sept. 9, that came out to 12,301 births.
America. Two brothers language, followed by For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow. Which Fast-Food Chain Was The First To Sell Its
borrowed $600 from their Today, the famous happy birthday song is finally in Billionth Burger?
mom to open a pizza place the public domain, meaning you can sing it anywhere, White Castle holds the title of being the first fast-food
in Wichita, Kan. They named it Pizza Hut, because their at home or in front of a crowd, to your heart’s content, restaurant in the world. The restaurant was the start of what
sign only had room for eight letters. Six months later they without technically having to pay a royalty. has become a multi-billion dollar fast-food industry. The
opened a second outlet, and within a year they had six Which Broadway Musical Holds The Record For Most chain was able to make 18 burgers per each pound of beef
Pizza Hut restaurants. There are now more than 16,000 Tony Nominations? and sold them for a nickel each. Although McDonald’s makes
restaurants in more than 100 countries. Hamilton, the hip-hop Broadway musical about the much publicity of its “billions of burgers sold,” White Castle
Why Was Fort Lee, New Jersey, Named After A Traitor? life and death of Alexander Hamilton made Broadway was the first fast-food chain to sell over a billion burgers.
Charles Henry Lee served as a general of the Continental history when it was nominated for a record-setting Who Is The Highest Paid Female Athlete?
Army during the American Revolutionary War. Though he 16 Tony Awards. The show was nominated in every At just 22 years of age, 2018 U.S. Open champion
had far more military experience, Lee was passed over for category, including two categories that had Hamilton Naomi Osaka is the highest-paid female athlete of all
commander-in-chief in favor of George Washington. In an actors competing against each other. At the 2016 Tony time. Osaka earned $37.4 million over the past 12 months
attempt to soothe Lee’s ego, George Washington had Fort Awards, Hamilton ultimately won 11 awards, including from prize money and endorsements, surpassing Serena
Lee named after him in 1776. Soon after, Lee was captured Best Musical. Hamilton has also won a Grammy Award Williams ($36 million), who had topped the list for each
by the British at a tavern in New Jersey. While in British and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. of the past four years. Osaka’s earnings also set an all-time
custody Lee committed treason, advising William Howe How Many American Presidents Died On Independence single-year record, overtaking Maria Sharapova’s record
on the best way to capture Philadelphia. Lee was released Day? of $29.7 million set in 2015. It marks the 10th consecutive
in a prisoner swap in 1778, but was later court-martialed James Monroe, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams all year that a tennis player has held the top spot in the female
by the Americans for the offense. passed away on July 4th. In fact, Jefferson and Adams highest-earning ranks.
Who Introduced The Word “Hello” As The Customary passed away within a few hours of each other in 1826, on
Way To Answer A Telephone Call? the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of
The use of the word “Hello” as a telephone greeting Independence! America’s fifth president, James Monroe, Norway from page 16
has been credited to Thomas Edison. Alexander Graham passed away on the same date five years later ... all
Bell, who invented the telephone in 1885, never liked remarkable coincidences of history. behind the City Hall, with the Royal Palace on one end
“Hello” and advocated the use of “Ahoy” as a telephonic Who Is The Only U.S. President To Have Earned An MBA? and the Parliament building on the other. Numerous
greeting. However, “Hello” quickly became the standard Though you might not think of George W. Bush as a museums proudly display the Norwegian history from
when the first telephone exchanges, equipped by Edison, brainiac, he is actually the only president in the history before the time of the Vikings to the present. There is
were set up across the country. of the United States to have his Master’s in business even a “Resistance” museum that houses the relics of the
Who Inspired The Name “Uncle Sam”? administration degree. He first received a bachelor’s Norwegian resistance movement during World War II,
During the War of 1812, a meat packer named Samuel degree in history from Yale University in 1968, and when the country was occupied by the Germans. The city
Wilson was in charge of supplying beef to U.S. troops. continued his education at Harvard Business School, has built a heritage museum in a large parklike setting
He was affectionately known as Uncle Sam, and when his where he earned a Master of Business Administration that also boasts various period structures from all over
products arrived in containers marked with “U.S.,” troops degree in 1975. Norway, which have been dismantled and reassembled
on the site.
*Source for population of Norway is CIA World
Factbook (July 2020 estimate)
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The scenic village of Geiranger and the Geirangerfjord,
a branch of the Storfjord

Photos by Don Kiselewski

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