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Fast facts: The gender of a sea turtle is determined by the temperature of the sand during egg incubation. Warmer temperatures produce more females while cooler temperatures produce more males. During the mating season, male porcupines bristle their quills at each other and chatter their teeth in rage before attacking. Rome has more homeless cats per square mile than any other city in the world. Lanolin, an essential ingredient of many cosmetics, is, in its native form, a waxy, tar-like substance extracted from the fleece of sheep. Lemon sharks grow a new set of teeth every two weeks. They grow more than 24,000 new teeth every year.

 

On this date: In 1582, this day became the first day of the Gregorian calendar after it was adopted by Pope Gregory XIII in Italy and Spain. In1860, Grace Bedell, age 11, wrote to Abraham Lincoln with a request: grow a beard and she would try to get her four brothers to vote for him as president. In November, Lincoln won the election, then he grew a beard. In 1905, joining the other U.S. citizens that didn't want women to vote, President Grover Cleveland wrote an article for "Ladies Home Journal". The president said, "We all know how much further women go than men in their social rivalries and jealousies... sensible and responsible women do not want to vote." In 1946, Hermann Goering, Nazi leader and one of Hitler's most loyal supporters, committed suicide in his prison cell just before he was due to be executed. In 1951, the popular comedy series "I Love Lucy," starring husband-and-wife team Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, aired for the first time on national television. In 1984, if you had a credit card, you could use the first public telephones on airplanes. Twenty flights offered phone service for the low cost of $7.50 for a three-minute call, $1.25 for each additional minute anywhere in the United States.

 

Quotable... "I just pray for the fighting to stop." - Tony Sojay, an employee at St. George's Anglican Church in Kano, on the religious violence in Nigeria.