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Today is "The Facts of Life" Day, marking debut of the popular NBC-TV sitcom on August 24, 1979. A spin-off from "Diff'rent Strokes," it starred Lisa Welchel, Mindy Cohn, Nancy McKeon, Kim Fields, Charlotte Rae, and Molly Ringwald.


Today is Weather Cliché Day, marking this date in 1897 when editor Charles Dudley Warner of the Hartford Courant published the sentence, "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." Many incorrectly attribute the quotation to Warner's close friend, Mark Twain.

On this day in 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly non-stop across the U.S., traveling from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey, in just over 19 hours. Of course, that was just 7 hours in the air, and 12 hours of ground delays at LAX :)

On this day in 1991, in Newport, South Carolina, 15-year-old Dirk Tanis escaped from his burning home after Spuds, the family Dalmation, bit his hand to wake him up. Safely outside, Dirk then watched Spuds carry out Gizmo, a 5-month-old kitten, by the scruff of its neck.

Here's some international trivia: According to Japanese legend, a sick person will recover if they fold 1,000 of what type of origami?

Good luck :)