Three of the following are FACTS…one is a FIB (scroll down to find out which one!)
1. Elton John’s real name is Reginald Kenneth Dwight. And when he changed it to Elton John, he also gave himself a new middle name: Hercules. ”
2. LOL” started back in the 1980s, when a Canadian teenager named Wayne Pearson used it on a Bulletin Board System, one of the earliest forms of internet chat rooms, when a friend said something funny.
3. There’s only one word that starts with the letter “X” in all of Shakespeare. In “The Taming of the Shrew”, a character mentions Socrates’s wife, Xanthippe.
4. The first time there was nudity on TV in the United States was in 1971, when ABC aired an episode of National Geographic that featured nude tribesmen and women in Africa.
AND THE FIB IS…(scroll down)
#4!!
The first time there was nudity on TV in the United States was in 1973, when PBS aired the play “Steambath”.
SOURCES:
(CBC / Ultimate Classic Rock / Shakespeare Online / Lapham’s Quarterly)
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