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Fast facts: The most destructive tornado on record occurred in Annapolis, Mo. In three hours, it tore through the town on March 18, 1925, leaving a 980-foot-wide trail of demolished buildings, uprooted trees, and overturned cars. It left 823 people dead and almost 3,000 injured. Primitive blue-green algae grows in hot springs near Yellowstone's steaming geysers, defying scientific expectations by enduring and thriving in water temperatures as high as 160 degrees Fahrenheit. The oak tree can take as long as 30 years to produce its first crop of acorns. A dripping hot-water faucet wastes an average of 40 kilowatt-hours of electricity per month. This is the equivalent of running a color television eight hours a day for about 31 days. A drop of water may travel thousands of miles between the time it evaporates into the atmosphere and the time it falls to the Earth again as rain, sleet or snow.

 

On this date: In 715, Constantine ended his reign as Catholic pope. In 1833, the first tax-supported public library opened in Peterborough, N.H. In 1913, New York's Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, opened. The Philadelphia Phillies beat Brooklyn 1-0. In 1918, Latvia proclaimed independence. In 1947, the Atomic Energy Commission was formed. In 1967, a Boeing 737 rolled out onto a runway for the first time. Today in 1991 is the date found on copies of Microsoft MSDOS 5.0.

 

Quotable... "I meant what I said about withdrawal without delay, and I mean what I say when I call upon the Arab world to strongly condemn against terrorist activities." - President Bush, on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict