AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING CXXII

1. The first ATM in the United States was installed by Chemical Bank of New York, in Rockville Centre, Long Island on September 2, 1969. 

2. Earth is the only planet not named after a mythical deity. "Earth" comes from the Old English/German word for "the ground." [boring]

3. PADIDDLE is a night-driving game in which you look for a car with only one headlight. The rules vary. The first person to say "padiddle" can either get a point, hit somebody, kiss somebody, or have the other passengers remove an article of clothing. There can also be penalties for a false padiddle - as the one headlight of a motorcycle. [What those penalties are is anybody's guess.]

4. ROSHAMBO is the name of the game popularly known as Rock, Paper, Scissors.

5. ELOPE can also mean Patient Elopement - when a patient leaves a hospital or other medical facility before being discharged - without medical consent.

6. A Danish is called Viennese bread in Denmark

7. Tenth U.S. President John Tyler has one living grandson. Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928 and is 94 years old (as of 2022). Harrison's older brother, Lyon Gardiner Tyler was born in 1924 and died in 2020 at the age of 95. John Tyler was born in 1790 (not a typo), served as President from 1841-1845, and died in 1862. Tyler had 8 children by his first wife (Letitia Christian). After her death, he married a much younger woman (Julia Gardiner) with whom he had 7 more children. Tyler had been dead for over 60 years by the time his last two grandsons were born. In a Presidential oddity and genealogical marvel, three generations of a family spanned almost the entire history of the United States.