Daily Fun Fact for 11/25/2011

The Niagra Falls Shipwreck of 1888 was America's most preventable shipwreck. It happened when the ship's captain steered his ship under Niagra Falls in the middle of the night because, he "was feeling a bit parched." An observer reported seeing the captain holding a small mug in the air as if trying to collect water, before the force of the falling water and ice (the wreck occurred in December) broke the ship's bow and doomed the 17 sleeping crew members on board.The incident was the subject of ML Whitner's famous painting, "Winter Falls, Winter Dreams".

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Daily Fun Fact for 11/20/2011

Openness is one of five major personality factors known to be constant throughout multiple cultures, heritable in families and largely unvarying throughout a person's lifetime. The other four factors: extroversion, neuroticism, agreeableness and conscientiousness.

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Daily Fun Fact for 11/19/2011

Dixie cups were the brainchild of William H. Dixie, the great grand-father of Natalie Maines, the lead singer of the Dixie Chicks. When asked about her famous relative, Maines responded, "I heard he was sweetest guy. I used to use his red cups every day, but now I can afford better."

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