AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING XC

1. Less than 10% of the ocean floor has been mapped.

2. Mr. Boddy is the murder victim in the game of CLUE. He is the owner of the Boddy Mansion (Tudor Manor) and has invited all the guests there for the evening - each of whom (in their back-stories) has a motive to kill him. 

3. To bolster public morale during World War II, pianist Myra Hess organized and performed in hundreds of  of lunchtime concerts in London's National Gallery, for which she was made Dame of the British Empire in 1941.

4. Marni Nixon provided the singing voice for Deborah Kerr in The King and I, Natalie Wood, in West Side Story, and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady.

5. The area along the Mekong River where Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar meet is called The Golden Triangle.

6. Xanthippe was the (allegedly) scolding, nagging, ill-tempered wife of Socrates. Today, her name is a word that means a shrewish, quarrelsome woman.

7. "Wrong Way Corrigan" was not the football player who ran the wrong way in the 1929 Rose Bowl. That player was Ron Riegels, playing for the University of California, Berkeley. He was also called "Wrong Way Reigels" - adding to the confusion. The real "Wrong Way Corrigan" was Douglas Corrigan, an American aviator and the last of the early glory-seeking fliers. He meant to fly from Brooklyn, NY to Long Beach, CA, but "accidentally" flew across the Atlantic Ocean to Dublin, Ireland. He claimed he had read his compass backward. 

8. Moxie is a brand of carbonated beverage that was among the first mass-produced soft drinks in the United States. It was created around 1876 by Augustine Thompson as a patent medicine called "Moxie Nerve Food", and was produced in Lowell, Massachusetts. It's similar to root beer - with an aftertaste. It was America's most popular soft drink until the 1920's, when it was eclipsed by Coca-Cola. Today, Moxie is bottled and distributed primarily in the Northeast, with a core of dedicated fans in Maine.