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Fast facts: In Alaska, it is legal to shoot bears. However, waking a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photograph is prohibited. Discovering two photographs of a nude woman among the film's more than 110,000 frames, Disney Studios recalled 3.4 million copies of the home video release of The Rescuers (1977). Though human noses have 5 million olfactory cells with which to smell, sheepdogs have 220 million, enabling them to smell 44 times better than man. Suzie Derkins is the only character in Bill Watterson's comic strip, "Calvin and Hobbes," to have a first and last name. Calvin's parents have no names at all. "Cooties" really do exist. Though most people believe that "cooties" is just a nonsense word used by children to describe unpleasant insects, cooties are, in fact, a kind of body lice.

 

On this date: In 1863, Turkey Day got its start when U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation designating the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day. In 1893, housekeeping got a little easier when J.S. Thurman of St. Louis, Mo., patented the motor-driven vacuum cleaner. In 1906, global lingo was established when SOS was recognized as an international distress signal at the Berlin Radio Conference. In 1922, politics changed when Georgia Governor Thomas Hardwick appointed Rebecca L. Felton to the U.S. Senate. She was the first female senator in the United States. In 1955, children everywhere turned their televisions on when "The Mickey Mouse Club" debuted on ABC. The half-hour TV show was filmed on a daily basis.

 

Quotable... "I rested but I didn't sleep because it all just kept playing in my head. It will be with me forever." - Tucsonan William Lowell McCracken about fighting off an intruder in his garage, then shooting the man with his own gun.