10 Things I Didn't Know Last Week


1. Bill Gates is stepping down from his position at Microsoft in July.

2. Prescott Bush, grandfather of the current President, was an early supporter of Planned Parenthood and the United Negro College Fund.

3. Christopher Columbus may have brought syphilis back to Europe from his travels in the New World.

4. Some of his contemporaries believed that Hitler had syphilis.

5. The Library of Congress has a huge archive of photos available on Flickr.

6. You can stage an effective protest with bouncy balls.

7. Until 2000 GPS intentionally broadcast errors to civilian systems as a security measure.

8. "Embodied cognition" is the element of thinking that is inextricably tied to certain types of fidgeting.

9. Linda Gray, a.k.a. Sue Ellen Ewing, was the leg model for the poster for The Graduate.

10. Most universities spend less than five percent of their endowments every year.

Image via SDS Universe.

Comments

  1. JoslynJanuary 21, 2008 at 10:04 AM

    the bouncy ball thing is brilliant...i am now planning to stock up on bouncy balls.

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  2. Joanna GoddardJanuary 24, 2008 at 10:54 PM

    it would be so cool to be the leg model for the graduate. you could basically retire immediately and still be the coolest person ever.

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 25, 2008 at 6:07 PM

    Sue Ellen was the leg model? That is such good trivia! And thanks, Chrostopher Columbus! Thanks for the STD.

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