Did you know?

As of 1996, Hee Haw holds the record for the longest running weekly first-run syndicated show in the history of television. it spanned over 4 decades, from the late 60's to the early 90's, every Saturday night at 7:00.

The first comic strip wAs. "the Yellow Kid," in the New York World in 1896. The cartoonist was Richard Felton Outcault.

April 5 is National Dandelion Day.

The only river that flows both north and south of the equator is the Congo. It crosses the equator twice.

Abraham Lincoln, who invented a hydraulic device for lifting ships over shoals, was the only US president ever granted a patent.

April 14 is look up at the sky day.

April 1887 -The first woman mayor was elected in the U.S. as Susanna M. Salter became mayor of Argonia, Kansas.

April 27, 1865 - On the Mississippi River, the worst steamship disaster in U.S. history occurred as an explosion aboard the Sultana killed nearly 2,000 passengers, mostly Union soldiers who had been prisoners of war and were returning home.

April 27, 1865 -- the first dictionary of American -style English was published by Noah Webster as the American Dictionary of the English language.

The doughnut began life in Holland as "oly kocks" (0il cakes) made by dropping the leftovers from bread-making into boiling oil. The earliest use of the word "doughnut" in print was in 1809 in Washington Irving's History of New York. The first doughnut cutter was patented by Joan Blondell in 1872.

In 1995, Britain's most successful examination taker, Francis Thomason, gave credit to his warm slippers when he explaining how he managed to pass seventy O-levels , sixteen A -levels, one S- level and gain an open University degree. "It is important to have comfortable feet" he said.

The police in Winchester once received an emergency call from a man whose wife had hidden his wooden leg.

August II of (1670-1733) of Poland sold a regiment of dragoons for fifty pieces of Ming porcelain. He is said to have fathered over five hundred illegitimate children

Sources: www.historyplace.com; www.corsinet.com; www.holidayinsights.com; encyclopedia of useless information by William Hartston