• Karl Malden was hired to provide the voice of the title character in the Discovery Channel program “P.T. Barnum: America’s Greatest Showman” because of his remarkable resemblance to Barnum.
• The city of Aswan, Egypt, is one of the most arid places in the world. There is so little rainfall there that many local residents don’t bother to roof all the rooms in their homes.
Debuting in 1951, the UNIVAC I was the first commercial computer manufactured in the U.S. Much of its development cost came from:
A) The Bureau of the Census
B) General Motors
C) Industrialist Howard Hughes
D) The United States Air Force
Wednesday’s answer: A corolla is a group of petals on a flower.
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