Dale's Daily Data

It’s one of the most famous buildings in the world - the Pentagon. Planning began before World War II – back when the military command was spread out over 17 different buildings all over Washington, D.C. So officers wasted hours every day traveling around from one office to another. And the problem was expected to get worse because the Department of the Army was expected to grow another 25 percent, enough to fill four more office buildings.

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Their work was for the benefit of the world, but they died as a direct or indirect result of their inventions. Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in 1903 for her work science and chemistry. She discovered two new elements including radium and polonium and the theory of radioactivity

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The Olympic Games of London are now history. The United States led the medal count by a wide margin with 104 total medals, 17 more than second place China and a total of 46 gold medals, 8 more than China. Great Britain did very well coming in third place in total medals and in gold medals.

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It’s called the Rickenback Frying Pan and it had a huge effect on not only country music, but jazz, blues and rock. It was a patent granted in 1937 and the Rickenback Frying Pan had nothing to do with food or anything in the kitchen. It was a device that transformed the guitar.

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Pretty ugly incident involving Randy Travis early yesterday morning in Texas. Police say when they arrived on the scene Travis was lying naked in the street with his smashed up Trans Am off to the side of the road in some construction materials. When police tried to put him in a patrol car he allegedly threatened to kill them.

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Keeping ourselves healthy in the business we’re in is so important. When we get a cold, sore throat, cough – it’s nearly impossible to do our job. We struggle thru it so bad that there have been times when our boss orders us to stay home.

That little tickle in the back of the throat is the signal to me I’m not going to be able to get thru more than a sentence or two before I start coughing and it’s something that sticks around for about a week before it settles down.

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I’m sure you know the story of the Donner party. They were traveling from Springfield, Illinois headed to California when they got stranded in the Sierra Nevada Mountains by the snow and cold. Only half of the 89 people made it to California the following spring. They survived by eating the people who died.

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For people who play poker or Texas Hold ‘Em long enough you get to learn that certain combinations of cards have nicknames and some of them are pretty interesting.

For example a pair of Ace’s (AA) is sometimes called American Airlines, Rockets, Bullets or Snake Eyes.

A pair of Kings (KK) are Cowboys or King Kong.

A pair of Queens (QQ) are Ladies

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On this final day of July – one last chance to get in some ice cream facts. You already know vanilla is the most popular flavor and chocolate is the most popular topping.

But you’d have to go back to the days of Alexander the Great 300 years Before Christ who loved to eat snow with nectar and honey.

And Roman Emperor Nero in 50 AD had special rooms built under his palace to store snow from the mountaintops so he could top it with fruit to enjoy.

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We have somebody on our staff that goes out for a run every day. I think he says he has a five-mile route he covers regardless of the weather. We did a remote near his home one morning and he didn’t even bother to stop in to say hello. He just ran on by. I’m not sure if he takes a break from his routine – maybe a day off on the weekend once in a while, but a guy by the name of Mark Covert never takes a day off from running. His streak is up to 16,081 days in a row – the number of consecutive days he’s run at least a mile.

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There are people who have held on to some of the toys they had as kids. I'm one of them. Some of those toys could be worth a lot of money these days. But would you part with those toys if someone offered you enough money?

We share many traits with other animals, but there are some things that make us uniquely human. Here are some of them.