Who Knew? Some Fun Facts

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Prior to taking her place on the stoop of 227, Marla Gibbs played the housekeeper Florence on The Jeffersons (a spin-off of All in the Family). In a 2015 interview, Gibbs told the Washington Post that despite it appearing as though she had gotten her big break, she kept her job as a flight attendant for American Airlines for two more years—just to be safe.
 

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Some people refer to Edith Wilson the first female president of the United States.

Technically speaking, Edith Wilson, first lady from 1915 to 1921, was Acting President after President Woodrow Wilson had a severe stroke in October 1919.

For the remainder of Wilson's presidency, Edith managed the office of the president, determining which communications and matters of state were important enough to bring to the bedridden president's attention, and assisting him to sign important documents and orders. It has been rumored she even forged the president's signature on some of them.
 
The first "tree huggers" were 294 men and 69 women belonging to the Bishnois branch of Hinduism who, in 1730, died while trying to protect the trees in their village from being turned into the raw material for building a palace.

They literally clung to the trees, while being slaughtered by the foresters. But their action led to a royal decree prohibiting the cutting of trees in any Bishnoi village.

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Village women in the early 1970's in the Garhwal Hills of India, protecting the trees from being cut down.
 
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Overall, there are more than 36,000 McDonald’s restaurants spread out across the globe.

While this number is incredibly high, it makes perfect sense considering that this favorite fast-food ranks as the second-largest fast-food restaurant chain in the world!

The first McDonald’s to open outside of the USA commenced operations on June 3, 1967, in Richmond, Canada.
 
RadishRose said:
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Overall, there are more than 36,000 McDonald’s restaurants spread out across the globe.

While this number is incredibly high, it makes perfect sense considering that this favorite fast-food ranks as the second-largest fast-food restaurant chain in the world!

The first McDonald’s to open outside of the USA commenced operations on June 3, 1967, in Richmond, Canada.
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I vacationed in Morocco in 2001 and one of the 1st things to catch my eye on the highway in Agadir, was a McDonald's. I couldn't believe it.
 

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