AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING XLVI

1. Cashews grow on trees.

2. The Danube River flows through or beside 10 countries.

3. The worker designation "white collar" was coined by author Upton Sinclair.

4. Nauru, an island nation in the South Pacific, is the only country in the world without a capital city.

5. Kempt (neat and clean), Respair (full of hope), Maculate (stained), and Biophilia (love of life) are obscure - but real words.

6. Salmon P. Chase may be the most accomplished politician in our nation's history never to have served as President. Even though he was a governor of and Senator from Ohio, served as Secretary of the Treasury under Abraham Lincoln, and became chief justice of the Supreme Court, Chase is remembered by most people as they guy on the $10,000 bill.

7. The expression "Break a leg" - used to wish an actor or other performer good luck, dates back to Elizabethan times. Instead of applauding, the audience would bang their chairs on the floor. If the show was really good, sometimes the chair legs would break.

8. Buffalo wings get their name not from the buffalo, but from Buffalo, NY, where they originated in the 1960's. 

9. With worldwide album sales exceeding 220 million, Celine Dion is the best-selling female recording artist of all time.

10. There was no December 30, 2011in Samoa when the country moved to the west of the International Date Line, in order to boost trade with nearby Australia and New Zealand.