Fact of the Day

[Bob]

Neurological complications occur in at least 70% of patients who are diagnosed with AIDS. At autopsy, 80-90% have neurological abnormalities. - Provided by RandomHistory.com

 

[Bob]

State laws commonly use two different acronyms to describe drunken or impaired driving - DWI and DUI. DWI stands for "driving while intoxicated" and typically refers only to alcohol impairment, while DUI stands for "driving under the influence" and can refer to either alcohol or drugs. - Provided by RandomHistory.com

 

[Bob]

Saturn's ring system is very wide, spreading out over a distance of 175,000 miles (282,000 km.). If you traveled that distance from Earth, you would be more than halfway to the moon. - Provided by RandomHistory.com

 

[Bob]

If someone held cholesterol in his hand, it would look like a waxy substance that had been scraped from a whitish-yellow candle. - Provided by RandomHistory.com

 

[Bob]

Approximately 56% of boy babies born in the U.S. are circumcised at birth, representing a decline of 20% since 1950. Worldwide, approximately one-third of men have been circumcised. - Provided by RandomHistory.com

 

[Bob]

President Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) is the only president to be elected to two nonconsecutive terms. He was the 22nd and 24th president. - Provided by RandomHistory.com

 

[RiverOtter]

President Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) is the only president to be elected to two nonconsecutive terms. He was the 22nd and 24th president. - Provided by RandomHistory.com

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[Bob]

Archaeologists found grape pips (seeds), usually considered evidence of winemaking, dating from 8000 B.C. in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan. The oldest pips of cultivated vines were found in (then Soviet) Georgia from 7000-5000 B.C. - Provided by RandomHistory.com

 

[Bob]

French anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Levi-Strauss argues that people smoking tobacco together reinforces personal relationships and often serves as a type of social initiation. - Provided by RandomHistory.com

 

[Bob]

In 1978, President Jimmy Carter, the first Southerner elected to the presidency following the Civil War, restored U.S. citizenship to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America. - Provided by RandomHistory.com