In the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints, the feast of Saint Valentine on February 14th was removed from the General Roman Calendar by Pope Paul VI due to lack of formal information on Saint Valentine’s life. featured image credit: St. Valentine Kneeling in Supplication by David Teniers III.
According to The New York Times 71% of the current U.S. debt was accumulated during Republican presidential terms.
Wildlife trade is currently the second-largest illegal trade in the world following the drug trade.
According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration armed robberies of pharmacies have increased by 81% since 2006. featured image via wikicommons
The maximum number of Friday the 13th’s that can fall in a calendar year is three, with 2012 being the latest year in which this will actually occur.
According to research in the newly published “Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens and the Culture of Sex,” the teen pregnancy rate in United States is four times higher than in Netherlands, partly due to the fact that 6 out of 10 Dutch women are on “the pill” at the time of their first sexual encounter. [...]
t is believed eunuchs were employed as high ranking advisors to emperors in China since they were incapable of having children and thus not tempted to seize power in order to start their own dynasties.
According to the annual Open Doors report from the Institute of International Education more than 700,000 foreign students came to the U.S. to study last year, a record high for U.S. colleges and universities. featured image credit: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albertinum.JPG
A Gallup poll taken just before the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor found that 52% of Americans expected war with Japan “some time in the near future,” while 27% did not.
Libby’s pumpkin pie filling is not actually pumpkin but another kind of squash called a Dickinson for which Libby’s bought all the rights and has developed its own version called “Libby Select No. 12.” featured image credit: fatllama
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