10 Things I Didn't Know Last Week


1. Berthe Morisot was Fragonard's grand-niece.
2. Mirepoix was named after a French duke.
3. The doctor who identified SARS died from it.
4. General Electric is the only remaining of the 11 original Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks.
5. Somebody is keeping a blog called "What I Learned Today." Oh, it's on like Donkey Kong!
6. Leap Day is also called bissextile day.
7. David Lee Roth wrote a memoir.
8. California got its name from a sixteenth century Spanish novel.
9. Princess (now Queen) Elizabeth's first home as a married woman had only one full bathroom, which dated from the 1870s.
10. The Hell's Angels had plans to assassinate Mick Jagger in 1969.

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