Three Facts & A Fib: America’s Gun-To-Person Ratio / Spielberg’s First Director Job / Ironic Origin of Word “Mortgage”

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Three of the following are FACTS…one is a FIB (scroll down to find out which one)

1.  America has more guns than people.  There are an estimated 1.2 civilian firearms per person.  No other country comes close to that level of firepower.

2.  Steven Spielberg’s career was launched when he directed the first episode of the TV show “Bonanza” in 1971.

3.  The word “mortgage” is the combination of two old French words . . . “mort” and “gage” . . . which literally translate to “death pledge.”

4.  Gwen Stefani’s brother Eric was one of the founders of No Doubt . . . but he left in 1994 to become an animator on “The Simpsons”.

AND THE FIB IS (Scroll down)

#2!

Steven Spielberg’s career was launched when he directed the first episode of the TV show “COLUMBO” in 1971.

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(Wikipedia / Wikipedia / Wikipedia / Wiktionary / All Music)