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INSIDE Are all those “strange but true” facts really true? Strange but True? . . . . . . . PAGE 3

Which state’s name means “snowy” or “snow-covered”? Fifty State Fun Facts . . . . . PAGE 4

Earth Day is Wednesday, April 22. To celebrate, Gist Weekly presents some information about this holiday. •

This Week in History . . . . . PAGE 5

Which two presidents have birthdays this week? Birthdays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAGE 5

What are the dots on dice called? By the Numbers. . . . . . . . . PAGE 6 And more including: Crossword—PAGE 2 Community Events—PAGE 3 Trivia Quiz—PAGE 3 Classifieds—PAGE 4 Sudoku—PAGE 6 Survey—Page 7 •

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Earth Day is usually celebrated on April 22, though some groups celebrate it on the spring equinox (March 20 or 21). The first April 22 Earth Day cel ebrati on in the United States was held in 1970, after being proposed by Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) in September of the previous year. About 20 million Americans took • part in the first Earth Day celebration. Senator Nelson chose April 22 as Earth Day to ensure maximum participation from college students; the date is usually after Easter and Spring Break but be• fore final exams. It is also late enough in the spring that the weather is usually warm enough for outdoor activities in most of the United States. April 22, 1970 was also a Wednesday, so it did not compete with weekend events. April 22 is the birthday of Julius Sterling Morton, who founded Arbor Day in 1872, and is the day

after the birthday of John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club. It is not known whether Senator Nelson intentionally placed Earth Day to coincide with either of those men’s birthdays.

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Within a few years of the first Earth Day, Congress passed thr ee m aj or pieces of legislation to protect the environment: the Clean Air Act in 1970, the Clean Water Act in 1972, and the Endangered Species Act in 1973. •

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In addition to promoting the passage of laws to protect the environment, Earth Day organizers also encourage individuals to do their part by recycling, using less energy, and reducing waste as much as possible. Earth Day became an international event in 1990 under the leadership of coordinator Denis Hayes, who had helped organize the very first Earth Day 20 years earlier. Today, over 15,000 organizations in more than 170 countries celebrate the day. Earth Day is thought to be the biggest secular holiday in the world, with hundreds of millions of people celebrating it each year.

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Word Search: Earth Day

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FUN AND GAMES Scavenger Hunt

Find the following words in the grid above. They may be forward, backward, up, down, or diagonal.

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ACROSS 1. Tree-planting holiday: ___ Day* 6. House rodents 10. Big TV maker 13. Use again 14. Capital of Yemen 15. Lenny’s best friend (voiced by Hank Azaria) on The Simpsons* 16. Terms of ___* 18. Nutritional info

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19. Commercials 20. “Bye!” 21. Italian cheese 23. Resistance units 24. Gambler 25. Obsolete British coin worth 21 shillings* 28. Treacle 31. Forearm bones 32. Played charades

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equipment 11. Steep, rugged rock 12. Too 15. Weeps 17. Terza ___ (Italian verse form) 22. Great quantity 23. Chestnuts roasting ___ open fire 24. Cupolas 25. Watch over 26. Arm bones 27. By some measure 28. Dug up 29. Strange and mysterious 30. Sea mammals 32. Copy 35. Something composed of links 36. Hawaiian native dance 38. Art ___ 39. Serf 41. Burgundy grape 42. Future doc’s exam 44. Cool! 45. Sea eagle 46. Unpleasant smell 47. Denomination 48. Embankment 49. Augury 50. Club ___ (resorts) 53. PBS benefactor 54. ___-Bo *Starred clues have answers that can be found elsewhere in this issue Solutions to all puzzles are on page 8.

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TRIVIA QUIZ Each question below relates to the topic of a feature in this issue of Gist Weekly, but is not answered in it. Answers are on page 8. 1. Earth Day (Page 1): Which federal agency enforces environmental laws? 2. Fifty State Fun Facts: Nevada (Page 4): Which hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip is shaped like a pyramid? 3. This Week in History (Page 5): South Africa held its first post-apartheid election 15 years ago this Monday. Who was elected president in that election? 4. Historic Birthdays This Week (Page 5): English political leader Oliver Cromwell would be 410 this Saturday. What was his title from 1653 to 1658? 5. By the Numbers: 21 (Page 6): Which 2003 film starring Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, and Benicio del Toro has “21” in its name?

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Strange but True? Many trivia publications and websites have “Strange but True” lists of things that seem extraordinary but are supposedly factual. But are they really? Gist Weekly investigates the claims made by some of those other sites and publications.

reference to the power of the spoken word, similar to the saying, “The pen is mightier than the sword,” that someone took literally and placed on a list of facts.

This claim has been presented countless times in trivia books and websites, but that doesn’t make it true. In fact, the tongue is neither a single muscle nor the strongest in the body. The actual strongest muscle in the body, in terms of force exerted on external objects, is the masseter (jaw muscle). The Guinness Record for bite strength is 4,337 Newtons (about 975 pounds of force). The heart performs the most work over the force of a lifetime, but not the most at once. The tongue is not the strongest by any known measure.

Strange but True?: No.

Claim: One out of every five miles of Claim: The tongue is the strongest the Interstate Highway System must be straight and flat for use as landing muscle in the human body. strips for airplanes during times of Strange but True?: No. war.

Snopes.com, the online Urban Legends Reference Pages, has debunked this one, but it still keeps showing up on lists of facts.

The claim is just not logical; in order to use a section of road as an airstrip, it must be cleared of traffic. That means blocking off sections of interstate highways. If there were ever again a war on U.S. soil, it would make far more sense for planes to land at the many military bases, ai rpor ts, and sm al l ai rfi el ds The reasons for the claim that the throughout the country (and aircraft tongue is the strongest muscle are carriers off the coast), leaving the unclear. It might be a metaphorical highways free to move troops by

ground, evacuate civilians from target a r e a s , ge t m e di cs a n d ai d organizations to places where they are needed, etc. This urban legend might have originated near the end of or just after World War II. When Congress was hammering out the details of various versions of the Federal-Aid Highway Act (the 1956 version of which created the Interstate Highway System), it at one point considered including funds to build airstrips next to (not on) highways. That idea didn’t make it to the final version of any F ederal Highway Act, but i t apparently lived on in an altered form as an urban legend Claim: Nutmeg is poisonous if injected intravenously. Strange but True?: Sort of. This one is technically true, but not that strange: Just about anything is fatal if you inject enough of it intravenously, including air and most foods and drinks. (Please don’t try to test this out at home.)

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Nevada grew faster than any • other U.S. state during the second half of the last century. Its population expanded from 160,000 in 1950 to just over 2,000,000—or about 12 ½ times as many people—by the end of the century.

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Groom Lake, Nevada is home to the infamous Area 51, the military base that supposedly studies crashed UFOs, possibly including the one said to have landed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Nevada became the 36th U.S. state on October 31, 1864, joining the Civil War on the Union side.

Nevada is a Spanish word meaning “snow covered” or “snowy.” The state of Ne• Nevada is the va da wa s only state in the named after U.S. that has legal the Sierra Nebrothels, though vada mountain only in 8 of its 16 r a n ge , the counties. Prostituname of which tion is illegal in means “snowNevada’s state flag Las Vegas and covered mounReno as well as in tain range.” Most of the Sierra the counties that contain them. Nevada is in California, however, not Nevada. • The southern part of Nevada, including Las Vegas, is part of the Over 85% of Nevadans live in Mojave Desert. The desert also either Clark County or Washoe covers parts of California, Utah, County, the counties that contain and Arizona. Las Vegas and Reno, respectively. • Before casinos came to Nevada, Las Vegas is the biggest city in much of its economic and popuNevada as well as the state’s most lation growth was driven by silver popular tourist destination. The mining. Nevada is nicknamed city’s legalization of gambling in “The Silver State” because of the 1931 and the completion of the important role mining played in Hoover Dam in 1935 drove much its history. of the city’s growth. • Nevada has voted for the winning Nevada has no personal or corcandidate in all but one of the porate income tax, though it does presidential elections in the last have a state sales tax of 6.5%. 101 years. The only time since Las Vegas, like the state in which 1908 that Nevada voted for the it is located, gets its name from losing candidate was in 1976, Spanish. Las Vegas is Spanish for when it chose incumbent Gerald “the meadows.” Ford over Jimmy Carter.

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

Nicholas Cage

Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

George Clooney

Ocean’s Eleven (1960)

Johnny Depp

Ocean’s Eleven (2001)

Dustin Hoffman

Rain Man (1988)

Frank Sinatra

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April 22, 1889: The Land Run of 1889, allowing settlers to claim up to 160 acres of land in what is now the state of Oklahoma, be• gins at noon. By the end of the day, the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are both established with populations of about 10,000. April 23, 1985: The Coca-Cola Company introduced a new recipe for Coca-Cola. Later known • as “New Coke” or “Coke II,” the product is initially a sales success, but backlash causes the company to bring back the “classic” CocaCola within a few months. April 24, 1800: President John Adams signs an Act of Congress setting aside $5,000 for the purchase of books for what will become the Library of Congress.

lic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar. Later in the year, it is renamed the United Republic of Tanzania April 27, 1994: South Africa holds its first election with universal suffrage, allowing people of all races to vote following the end of apartheid. Following the historic election, April 27 becomes a national holiday, Freedom Day. April 28, 1789: Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny against Captain William Bligh aboard the HMAV Bounty. Bligh and 18 men loyal to him are set adrift in a dinghy, finding shelter on a series of islands before making it back to England to report the mutiny, losing one man in the voyage.

Did You Know?

April 25, 1859: French workers begin construction of the Suez Canal linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas, allowing travel by sea between Europe and Asia without sailing around Africa.

Hank Azaria, who turns 45 this week (see above right) is the voice of dozens of Simpsons characters, including Apu, Bumblebee Man, Captain McCallister, Carl, Chief Wiggum, Cletus, Comic Book Guy, Dr. Nick Riviera, Moe, Professor Frink, Snake, and Superintendant Chalmers.

April 26, 1964: The African nations of Tanganyika and Zanzibar unite, forming the United Repub-

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Actor Ryan Stiles (Two and a Half Men, The Drew Carey Show) . . April 22, 1959 Filmmaker Michael Moore (Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11) . . . April 23, 1954 Actress and author Shirley MacLaine (Coco Chanel, Terms of Endearment) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 24, 1934 Actor Hank Azaria (The Simpsons, The Birdcage) . . . April 25, 1964 Architect I.M. Pei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 26, 1917 Singer Sheena Easton (“We’ve Got Tonight” [with Kenny Rogers], “Morning Train [9 to 5]”) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 27, 1959 Novelist Lois Duncan (Hotel for Dogs, I Know What You Did Last Summer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 28, 1934 Clipart: MS

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The 26th Amendment to the • United States Constitution lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.

On a regulation tennis court , the net is 21 feet from each service line.

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Scandium, an element sometimes • added to aluminum alloys and used in some high-intensity light bulbs, has an atomic number of 21.

In volleyball, table tennis, and badminton, the winning team or player or team is generally required to reach 21 and win by at least two points.

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The 21st Amendment to the • United States Constitution ended Prohibition.

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In the United States, 21-gun salutes are traditionally reserved for presidents, former presidents, and visiting foreign heads of state. It is sometimes confused with the • three-volley salute given at military and police funerals due to the • latter often using seven rifles (though sometimes only five or three) firing three times in unison, • for a total of 21 shots. The 21gun salute traditionally uses cannons, not rifles, and has 21 rounds fired one at a time.

The minimum age to purchase alcohol in all U.S. states is 21. Some states in India—the only places is the world with higher minimum drinking ages—require people buying alcohol to be up to 25.

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The card game blackjack is often called 21, since the goal is to get • as close to the number 21 as possible without going over. The 2008 film 21 is named for the card game and is loosely based on Ben Mezrich’s book Bringing Down the House, a fiction- • alized novel about a real MIT card-counting team. Before British currency converted to a decimal system, a guinea was • equal to 21 shillings.

Illinois became the 21st U.S. state on December 3, 1818. The 21st President of the United States was Chester Alan Arthur. In 1973, the Pittsburgh Pirates retired Roberto Clemente’s number 21 after Clemente died in a plane crash while on a humanitarian mission to aid Nicaraguan earthquake victims. The 1987 to 1991 television series 21 Jump Street helped make Johnny Depp a nationallyrecognized star following his supporting roles in A Nightmare on Elm Street and Platoon. Twenty One was a game show involved in the scandals surrounding rigged quiz shows in the late 1950s. A standard six-sided die has 21 total dots, also called “pips.”

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APRIL 22, 2009

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Cinco de Mayo is Tuesday, May 5. Celebrate with some fun facts about that holiday.

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Continue the Cinco de Mayo celebration as International Info covers Mexico.

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Which Aztec god has a pterodactyl named after it? Read next week’s Monthly Mythology to find out.

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By the Numbers features cricket, catches, and a famous Clyde in trivia related to the number 22.

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This Week in History takes a look at the 70th anniversary of an important day for television other events that took place between April 29 and May 5.

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In Birthdays, a famous comedian turns 55 and an actress would be 80.

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Plus the usual assortment of puzzles and games, including a crossword, sudoku, scavenger hunt, and more.

Look for Issue #22 in one week!

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Game and Quiz Answers —WORD SEARCH— Solution

—MAZE— Solution

—CROSSWORD PUZZLE— Solution

—SCAVENGER HUNT LOCATIONS— A. B. C. D. E. F.

—MATCH UP— Answers Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)—Johnny Depp Leaving Las Vegas—(1995) Nicholas Cage Ocean’s Eleven (1960)—Frank Sinatra Ocean’s Eleven (2001)—George Clooney Rain Man (1988)—Dustin Hoffman

Page 6 (“By the Numbers”) Page 8 (Hunt Bros. Pizza/Sapp Bros. ad) Page 3 (“Strange but True?”) Page 5 (On cake images accompanying the birthdays) Page 4 (Grosenbach’s Auto Repair ad) Page 1 (Garage sale classifieds notice)

—TRIVIA QUIZ— Answers 1. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 2. The Luxor 3. Nelson Mandela 4. Lord Protector 5. 21 Grams

Please recycle this paper or pass it on to a friend when you are done with it.

—SUDOKU— Solution

—NONOGRAM— Solution