Jack Benny arranged for his widow to receive a rose every day for the rest of her life!

The comedian and vaudeville star was deeply in love with his wife, Mary Livingstone, whom he acted with and met for the first time at a Passover Seder when he was 25!

When he died in 1974, Benny’s will read that his widow shall have a single long-stemmed rose delivered to her every day for the rest of her life! Livingstone died nine years later on June 30th, 1983. In the time between her and her husband’s demise, Mary Livingstone received over 3200 roses!

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Pill bugs are crustaceans that adapted to live on land!

While crustaceans are usually crabs and shrimp, the pill bug or Armadillidium vulgare also falls into this classification instead of the Arthropoda taxonomy! Other cool facts about the pill bug:

• They breathe through gills
• They don’t pee due to their ability to pass ammonia gas through their exoskeleton
• When pill bugs are sick, they turn blue

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The word ‘swagger’ dates back to Shakespearean times!

In fact, the popular word to describe something in a bragging manner has its first written use in the 1596 play A Midsummer Night’s Dream! The quote of the original usage is as follows from character, Puck: “What hempen homespuns have we swaggering here?”

There are even earlier occurrences that may have to do with the word dating back farther before Shakespeare to the 1300s! But what can you do with this newfound knowledge? The next time your English teacher complains on how kids speak to one another, you can give that teacher a lesson on the history and evolution on this word we use so commonly today!

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James Dean was the reason jeans became popular with teenagers

James Dean's most iconic role is A Rebel Without a Cause. In it, he wore a pair of jeans throughout the movie. The actor and the movie were so popular, that teenagers began to wear jeans themselves. This was seen as an act of defiance against society. 

Jeans today are ubiquitous and they are no longer considered a working-man clothing or rebellious. More and more companies are having jeans be their most accepted work-attire, and even high executives in the tech industry wear jeans to most meetings. 

Because jeans are such a staple of clothing, groups like DoSomething are running campaigns to get these items into people who need them. Want to prove teenagers can do good? Join DoSomething.org and Aeropostale and donate your gently used jeans for homeless youth by joining Teens for Jeans! Visit www.TeensForJeans.com to learn more

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Montel Williams has a degree in engineering!

Before becoming a popular talk show host, Montel Williams went to school during enlistment at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland!

He also learned Mandarin Chinese and started shaving his head during his time at the naval academy. Other jobs Williams held include a motivational speaker and rodeo clown! What’s the strangest job you ever had? Tell us in the comments!

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