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What Country Is The Bicycle Capital?
November 6, 2012 Of the approximately one billion bicycles in the world, 400 million are in China. 50 million new bicycles are produced every year.
Dale’s Daily Data
Dale's Daily Data
November 6, 2012
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CMA Awards Past and Present
November 2, 2012 The Country Music Association Awards have come a long way since they were first presented in 1967. That first one wasn’t even televised. Eddy Arnold was named Entertainer of the Year.
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Buffalo’s Very Own Special Ladies
November 1, 2012 I enjoy learning about the history of Buffalo and Western New York and it was just yesterday that Clay and I learned something new about a building we see everyday when we look across Lafayette Square. It’s the Liberty Building – Buffalo’s fifth tallest building completed in 1925.
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Educate Your Trick-Or-Treaters Tonight With This Candy History
October 31, 2012 You might be interested to know the history of some of the things you might find in your kids' candy bag tonight or you might be giving out to the kids who come to your door.
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More People Drink It Than Any Other Beverage In The World – Do You?
October 25, 2012 What’s the most consumed beverage on earth? Coffee? Wine? Beer? It’s tea and its history extends back more than 4-thousand years to ancient China.
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Rocketing From New York To Tokyo – Right Around The Corner [VIDEO]
October 24, 2012 I’ve never been to Tokyo and it’s not on my bucket list, but there are plenty of Americans who do travel there. Some go for business, some for sightseeing, some to visit family. But whatever the reason the 12 hour flight travel time will soon be getting a whole lot shorter.
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Can You Top These “Liars”?
October 23, 2012 They’ve been doing it for more than 80 years and it all started with the local police chief of Burlington, Wisconsin and some of his officers talking about all the unbelievable lies they had been told over the years. So it kind of became a joke, telling tall tales and lies and who could outdo who.
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Somebody Had To Do It First – The First Parachute Jump
October 22, 2012 We were talking last week about the Austrian who jumped from a balloon 24 miles above the earth and set a speed record for skydiving before his parachute brought him safely to the ground. Like anything, someone had to be the first person to do something and with parachuting the first verified parachute jump was more by a Frenchman more than 200 years ago.
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What Makes the Human Body So Amazing?
October 19, 2012 I’ve said this before – the human body is an incredible machine. It’s amazing how efficiently it works and when some things break down it has the ability to fix itself.
One of the keys to operation of the body is the heart. It beats about 101-thousand times a day, about 3-billion times in a lifetime and over that time it’ll pump 800-million pints of blood.
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How Would Your Kid Complete the Sentence?
October 18, 2012 A 1st grade school teacher presented each child in class the 1st half of a well-known proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. It's hard to believe these were actually done by first graders. Their insight may surprise you.
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You’ve Probably Heard Many “Yogi-isms”
October 17, 2012 He was one of the great baseball players of his time. Played for the Yankees in the ’40’s and 50’s. He won three league MVP awards and also went on to manage the Yankees. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973. But he might be known for his ability to twist the English language.
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Really Stupid Inventions
October 16, 2012 The U-S Patent Office grants nearly half a million patents every year. Many of these products and ideas make our lives easier and better. Some never make a dime. Some are just plain stupid.