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Questions:
What Dancing with the Stars pro won her very first season at age 18 with Olympic skater Apolo Ohno?
Approximately how many days, hours and minutes make up one full lunar cycle?
Fix these misspelled flower names: Dafadil, pansie, dalyia, roadodendrin, Orrkid.
In the fur trade era, what was a “cache” used for?
Who played Opie Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show in the 1960s?
Fun Facts:
The Eiffel Tower grows six inches on hot days.
Fred Baur, the inventor of the Pringles can, is buried in one.
Michael Böllner, the German actor who played Augustus Gloop in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, became a tax accountant and had no idea how popular the movie was in America until he was invited to a fan convention decades later.
The Library of Congress was founded on April 24, 1800, with a $5,000 budget. It now has more than 170 million items.
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins.
In 1895 Alva Vanderbilt divorced her husband after he was caught with a Broadway actress. Alva got millions of dollars in the settlement and several estates. For the rest of her life she used her fortune to support women’s suffrage, efforts to uplift women of all races and champion social and prison reform.
In 1903, Serbia’s unpopular King Alexander and Queen Draga were brutally assassinated in their bedroom. Then their bodies were tossed from a balcony into a pile of manure.
There has been a rowing race between Cambridge and Oxford Universities on the Thames River every year since 1877, except during World War I, World War II and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The painted turtles in Western Australia can breathe underwater by pulling oxygenated water into its anus.
Between 1598 and 1612, three different men claimed to be the long-lost son of Czar Ivan the Terrible named Dmitry who everyone had believed had died at age 8. Each one managed to gain enough support to lead a small revolutionary army. Modern evidence has proven that they were all lying.
The numeric date April 25, 2025 (4-25-2025) is made up entirely of perfect squares.
Answers:
Julianne Hough (She was from Orem, Utah.)
29 days, 12 hours and 44 minutes
Daffodil, Pansy, Dahlia, Rhododendron, Orchid
A hidden storage spot for supplies, food or furs -- often buried underground
Ron Howard (Later famous as Richie on Happy Days and an Oscar-winning director.)



