Know it all

Judy Garland (1922-1969) was the lowest paid star in the 1939 movie “Wizard of Oz.”

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South Dakota is a leader in honey production. In recognition of its importance to the state’s farm economy, the honeybee was adopted as the state insect in 1978.

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The United States devotes about 29 percent of its total land area to forests. Alaska has 22 million acres of forest, the most of all 50 states. California has the second most forestland with 20.6 million acres. Idaho is third, with 20.4 million acres of forest.

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Do you know what is special about this sentence? We promptly judged antique ivory buckles for the next prize. See answer at end.

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Automatic electric bread making machines were introduced in 1992.

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Each week, Americans spend $90 million playing Bingo.

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Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu on May 1, 1967, at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. Elvis was 32, Priscilla was 21.

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More Kraft macaroni and cheese is sold in Canada than in any other country.

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The artwork of Pablo Picasso between 1901 to 1904 is called his “Blue Period.” Picasso’s friend Casagemas committed suicide. The artist was also away from home for the first time, and living in poor conditions. His paintings, done almost entirely in blue, expressed his depression.

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The turkey trot, popular in the early 1900s, was almost banned. Dancers bob their heads like strutting turkeys. Some people felt the dance was demoralizing.

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You would weigh more than a trillion pounds on a neutron star.

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The Baby Ruth candy bar was named for President Grover Cleveland’s daughter Ruth (1891-1904), who was born while Cleveland lived in the White House. In 1923, as a promotional stunt, Baby Ruth candy bars were dropped from airplanes over many U.S. cities. Each candy bar had a tiny parachute attached to it .

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The 10 story Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Missouri, was the first skyscraper in the United States. The building was completed in 1891.

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The word “assassination” was invented by William Shakespeare.

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The green pigment in plants is called chlorophyll.

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There are over half a million species of beetles.

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Wooden baseball bats weigh between 2 and 3 pounds. Wooden bats are commonly made from ash wood, however, maple, pine and hickory are also used.

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Doris Day (born 1924) recorded the hit song “Hooray for Hollywood” in 1959.

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Answer: It is a holalphabetic sentence, which is a sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet. Another one is: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Know It All is by Kerry McArdle. It runs in the weekend and Wednesday editions of the Daily Journal. Questions? Comments? Email knowitall(at)smdailyjournal.com or call 344-5200 ext. 114.