AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING CXL

1. Lima, Athens, and Dublin are all cities in Ohio.

2. Former President Lyndon Baines Johnson's favorite drink was Fresca. He liked it so much that he had a button installed on his desk in the Oval Office which he would press to summon his military aid to bring him a drink.

3. The term  COLD WAR was coined by British writer George Orwell in 1945. In his essay "You and the Atom Bomb," speculating on the repercussions of the atomic age which had begun two months before when the U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, he described a post WWII world where powerful nations, armed with nuclear weapons, would be locked in a state of perpetual tension and conflict, essentially a "peace that is no peace" without direct large-scale warfare. 

4. A plangonologist is a doll collector. 

5. Alfred Nobel was Swedish by birth. The Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Swede, with the exception of the Peace Prize, which is awarded in Oslo, Norway.

6. Timbuktu is an ancient city in Mali in central Africa. It was an intellectual and spiritual capital and a center for the propagation of Islam throughout Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries. Its name as a metaphor for a remote or outlandish place is partially justified in that it was extremely difficult to get there. Many European explorers in the age of discovery tried but failed to reach the city - the long and dangerous trek proving too much for them.

7. Bess Truman was the longest-lived First Lady - reaching 97 years.

8. To GROK something is to fully grasp and understand it. It has come into our language by way of American science-fiction writer Robert A. Heinleiin, who coined it in his novel, Stranger in a Strange Land.

9. Clair de Lune , in addition to being the title of Debussy's celebrated piano piece, is a pale, emerald green paint color.     

10. Point Barrow, on the Arctic coast of Alaska, is the northernmost point of all the territory of the United States - 1,291 miles south of the North Pole