• Richard Nixon won about $6,000 in poker games during his World War II service in the U.S. Navy. He used these winnings to fund his first successful political campaign for Congress in 1946.
• The Procrastinators Club of America gave its 1988 Procrastinator of the Year Award to the Illinois-Central Railroad, for a train that left the station in 1903, and has yet to arrive.
The five people with the most all-time nominations for Best Song Academy Awards are all:
A) Women
B) Natives of New York City
C) Lyricists
D) All of the above
Tuesday’s answer: Buffalo Bill’s nickname for sharpshooter Annie Oakley was “Little Missie,” a shortened form of “Little Miss Sure Shot,” a nickname given to Oakley by Sitting Bull.
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