Three of the following are FACTS…one is a FIB (scroll down to find out which one)
1. Maryland’s state motto is an Italian phrase “Fatti maschii, parole femine,” which translates to “Slow To Strike Like A Tortoise”
2. Jean-Claude Van Damme’s first credited movie role was “Gay Karate Man” in a movie called “Monaco Forever” in 1984.
3. Vincent van Gogh didn’t start painting until he was 27, and he died when he was 37. In those 10 years, he finished about 860 paintings . . . or an average of one about every four days. And only one of them sold while he was alive.
4. Lancaster, Pennsylvania was the capital of the U.S. for exactly one day . . . September 27th, 1777. Philadelphia was the capital before that, but the British had just captured it, so it moved there . . . then to York, Pennsylvania for about nine months.
AND THE FIB IS…(Scroll down)
#1!
Maryland’s state motto is an Italian phrase “Fatti maschii, parole femine,” which translates to “Manly deeds, womanly words.”
SOURCES:
(Self / Wikipedia / IMDb / Biography / Mental Floss)
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