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• The distinction of being the nation’s youngest living soldier to receive the highest military honor, the Medal of Honor, belongs to former Marine William Kyle Carpenter. The medal was awarded for his bravery during a 2010 tour in Afghanistan. Then 21 years old, Carpenter shielded a fellow Marine from a hand grenade lobbed at their location, saving the Marine’s life. Carpenter’s right arm was broken in more than 30 places, his jaw was shattered, he received shrapnel to his head, and he lost his right eye. After spending 2 ½ years in the hospital where his face was reconstructed, Carpenter was released, and enrolled in the University of South Carolina, graduating in 2017. He has also become a marathon runner.

• During World War II, Polish resistance member Witold Pilecki deliberately got himself arrested by the Nazis. His purpose was to provide intelligence from within the concentration camp Auschwitz to the Polish Army and the Western Allies. During his 2 ½ years inside the death camp, Pilecki sent information of the atrocities inside the camp, trying to convince the Allies that five million people had been exterminated. He managed to escape from Auschwitz in 1943.

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• Born into slavery in Maryland, Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross) worked as a field hand and endured numerous beatings. After a daring escape, this African-American abolitionist returned to the South 19 times to lead dozens of slaves to freedom through the network of safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. Despite the reward on her head, which swelled to $40,000, she managed to dodge bounty hunters, never losing a single person. In addition to her U.R. activities, she also operated as a Civil War scout and a spy. Because she was paid just $200 over a three-year period, Harriet supported herself by selling baked goods and homemade root beer. Following the war, she opened the Home for Indigent and Aged Negroes in New York, funded by giving speeches and selling copies of her biography.

• Thomas Burnett, Mark Bingham, Todd Beamer, and Jeremy Glick all boarded United Airlines Flight 93 in Newark, New Jersey, on September 11, 2001 for different reasons. Burnett learned of the destruction of New York City’s Twin Towers via a cell phone call from his wife, and upon realizing that their own plane was controlled by terrorists, whose plan was to use the plane as a missile to destroy government buildings in Washington, D.C., the four men devised a plan to take the plane back from the hijackers. Jeremy Glick’s last words to his wife from the plane were, “We’re going to rush the hijackers.” Todd Beamer was the passenger who spoke the nowfamous words, “Are you guys ready? Let’s roll!”

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• More than 1,200 Jews and their 7,000 descendants owe their lives to a German industrialist named Oskar Schindler. Schindler was able to protect Jews during World War II by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in Poland and the Czech Republic. He gave large bribes and gifts to Nazi officials to prevent the Jews’ execution in Nazi concentration camps, and by the end of the war, he was bankrupt, having spent his entire sizeable fortune on bribes and supplies for his workers. After failing at several business ventures, he survived on donations from the “Schindlerjuden” (Schindler’s Jews), those he had saved, from all around the world. He died penniless in 1974.

• Dale Beatty set out in his Humvee for a day of patrol across northern Iraq in 2004. His life was forever changed when the vehicle hit a land mine, sending the Humvee 50 feet into the air.

When Beatty woke up, his legs were pinned beneath the wreckage, an injury that necessitated amputation of both legs below the knee. After a year of recovery at Washington’s Walter Reed Hospital, Beatty hoped to build a handicappedaccessible home for his wife and two sons. His fellow church members, along with a fellow Iraq vet, John Gallina, helped him build the house on donated land. In 2008, the two vets founded Purple Heart Homes, a non-profit that helps provide homes for other disabled vets. Beatty and Gallina provide free renovations for the disabled, using donated labor and materials. The basis for the organization’s helping dozens of vets is Beatty’s statement, “We wouldn’t leave someone behind on the battlefield. Why would we do it at home?” ...continued

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• On June 22, 1611, the starving crew of the Discovery mutinies against its captain, English navigator Henry Hudson, and sets him, his teenage son and seven supporters adrift in a small, open boat in Hudson Bay. The castaways were never seen again.

• On June 20, 1782, Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States after six years of discussion. The front of the seal depicts a bald eagle clutching an olive branch in its right talon and arrows in its left, with a shield marked with 13 vertical red and white stripes on its breast.

• On June 23, 1902, German automaker DaimlerMotoren-Gesellschaft registers "Mercedes" as a brand name. A three-point star was registered as a trademark in 1909 and used on all Mercedes vehicles after 1910.

• On June 24, 1948, the Soviet Union blocks all road and rail traffic to and from West Berlin. Panic set in as its population worried about food, water and medical aid. Just two days later, the United States began a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin.

• On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in New York. Both proclaimed their innocence right up to the time of their deaths.

• On June 21, 1965, the Byrds' debut album, "Mr. Tambourine Man," is released and marks the beginning of the folk-rock revolution. In just a few months, the Byrds had become a household name.

• On June 18, 1983, the space shuttle Challenger is launched on its second mission. Aboard the shuttle was Dr. Sally Ride, who as a mission specialist became the first American woman to travel into space. Ride, an astrophysicist from Stanford University, operated the shuttle's robot arm, which she had helped design.

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• Mohandas Gandhi was renowned for his heroic methods of nonviolence in India’s fight for independence from British rule. A former lawyer, Gandhi organized India’s common population of peasants, farmers, and laborers to protest Britain’s excessive land taxes and discrimination, while advocating nonviolent civil disobedience, or “passive non-cooperation,” in the quest for civil rights. His approach involved “refusing to use brute force against the oppressor” and “seeking to eliminate antagonisms between the oppressor and the oppressed.” For all of his peacemaking efforts, Gandhi was named “Man of the Year” by Time magazine in 1930. When the magazine selected its “Person of the Century” at the end of 1999, Gandhi was the runner-up to Albert Einstein.

• Colonial silversmith and engraver Paul Revere is famous for his midnight ride that warned fellow colonists of the approaching British armies in 1775. Having already established an intelligence network that spied on the British military, Revere received word that the King’s troops were on their way to capture Patriot leaders and seize supplies.

Revere’s system of lanterns placed in the steeple of Boston’s North Church – “one if by land, two if by sea” – signaled the militia of the landing.

Although legend has it that Revere shouted, “The British are coming!” eyewitnesses say his actual words were, “The Regulars are coming out.”

• Born in Macedonia in 1910, Anjeze Bonxhe Bojaxhiu devoted her life to helping the sick and poor in India. After taking her vows as a nun, Anjeze traveled to India to become a teacher. After 17 years of teaching, she stepped away from that calling after seeing the slums of Calcutta, where she established a hospice, a center for the blind, aged, and disabled, and a haven for lepers. Known as Mother Teresa, this selfless woman received the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for her aid to what she called “the unwanted, the unloved, the uncared for.”

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Tidbits wishes you a happy National Cotton Candy Day on June 11 by bringing you the facts on its history and manufacturing process.

• We might call this confection cotton candy, but other countries use different terms. In New Zealand, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom it’s called candy floss.

Australians still use the original term fairy floss, while the South Africans call it tooth floods. The French refer to it as Papa’s beard, while the Greeks use “old ladies’ hair” to describe the sweet treat. In the Netherlands, cotton candy is known as “sugar spider.” In China, candy makers blend peanuts and coconut into the sugar and call it “dragon’s beard candy.” The Himalayan nation of Bhutan spices it up a bit by adding chili pepper to the mix.

• It’s a little ironic that dentists first invented cotton candy, a confection whose only ingredient is sugar.

A Nashville dentist named Dr. William Morrison teamed up with candy maker John Wharton in 1897 to invent a machine that melted sugar and spun it through tiny holes in a fine screen using centrifugal force to create sugar threads. After receiving their patent, the pair improved their packaging method and • Even though the sole ingredient of cotton candy is sugar, there is a lot more sugar in a 12-oz. can of soda took the product they called fairy floss to the 1904 pop than in a cone of cotton candy. There is really St. Louis World’s Fair, where they sold 68,000 boxes more air in cotton candy than there is for 25 cents each. In today’s money, sugar. that’s around $6.75 a package.

• Another gentleman named Thomas Patton patented a different type of cotton candy machine in 1900, one that caramelized sugar, forming the threads using a fork. A gas-fired rotating plate spun the sugar into threads. Patton marketed his candy at the Ringling Brothers Circus.

• Gold Medal Products debuted a more reliable machine in 1949.

They went on to formulate the two most popular flavored colors – blue raspberry, which they call “Boo Blue,” and pink vanilla, trademarked as “Silly Nilly.” Cotton candy machines were greatly improved upon during the 1970s, and a modern machine today now has a rotating bowl that spins 3,450 times a minute.

• In 1921, a New Orleans dentist, Dr. Josef Lascaux, improved on the machine design as well as trademarking the name “cotton candy.” He first introduced • The world’s largest cotton candy manufacturer is Tootsie Roll of Canada, Ltd., a company that bags a his candy at his dental practice! fruit-flavored variety they call Fluffy Stuff .

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The spinning of the extruder propels the strands of • Cotton candy is so delicious that there are three difmelted sugar through the holes. When the sugar hits ferent days designated as National Cotton Candy Day the air, it cools, and solid threads form. The threads – June 11, July 31, and December 7. are thinner than human hair.

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• Those who study such things say that the word "daisy" started out as "day's eye" and was shortened over the years. Similarly, "God be with you" became "goodbye" and "whole be thou" became "hello."

• Becoming a sports star is the dream of many young people, so you might think that someone who is signed to a professional baseball contract has it made. You'd be wrong, though: Only 1 out of every 10 athletes who sign such a contract ever becomes a major-league ballplayer.

• The shortest song in the world is "You Suffer," recorded in 1986 by the British band Napalm Death. It lasts precisely 1.316 seconds.

• In France in the 1700s, capital punishment was not uncommon, and criminals thus condemned were decapitated by the country's Chief Executioner. This position was hereditary, which posed a problem when, in 1726, the holder of that title, Charles-Jean-Baptiste Sanson, suffered an early death, leaving his 7-year-old son, Charles, to take up the grisly duties. It was obvious to all that a child could never wield the heavy ax required for the decapitations, so it was deemed acceptable for a helper to actually perform the executions. Only the official office-holder could put the official seal on the act, however, so the poor boy had to witness every one. It wasn't until the ripe old age of 12 that he began to take over the full duties of the office. *** Thought for the Day: "It's best to give while your hand is still warm." -- Philip Roth

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Lightning strikes again! Tidbits commemorates Lightning Safety Awareness Week with this collection of facts.

• Lightning occurs when there is an electrical discharge between storm clouds and the ground or within the clouds. Particles of rain, ice, or snow inside the storm clouds collide and create an imbalance, negatively charging the lower range of the clouds. Objects on the ground become positively charged. When the two connect, a flash of lightning equalizes the imbalance by passing current between them. That flash travels at 200,000 mph as the electricity transfer takes place.

• A lightning flash can heat the surrounding air to a temperature five times hotter than the sun’s surface. This causes the air to expand and vibrate, creating a thunder clap. A single bolt can contain up to one billion volts of electricity. It has enough energy to power a 100-watt light bulb for 90 days.

• About 1.4 billion lightning flashes occur every year on Earth. About 25 million of those will strike. The average length of a single bolt is two to three miles.

• There are about 2,000 deaths worldwide from lightning strikes each year. About 400 people are struck by lightning in the U.S. each year, but approximately 70% of those survive, although many suffer serious health problems afterward.

Loss of memory, impaired hearing, vertigo, insomnia, and chronic pain are common effects.

More Americans are killed by lightning each year than either tornadoes or hurricanes.

• Florida is lightning’s deadliest state, comprising 10% of lightning casualties, twice as many as any other state.

• Do you have an irrational fear of lightning? The fancy name for that is keraunophobia. Fear of thunder is known as brontophobia.

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• Who gets struck? Nearly two-thirds of casualties are people engaged in outdoor leisure activities, with fishermen accounting for the Answer: Dell. most fatalities, followed by those on the beach, VERY LARGE NUMBER campers,Aboaters, those doing yardwork, soc•cer Edward Kasner was a mathematician.

1938 players, and golfers. Many of the In victims he was asked to come up with a name realized the danger and were headed for afor safea very large number: the numeral one, followed place, but not in time to avoid the strike. by a hundred zeros. He asked his two young • June, July,what and August account more than nephews name they wouldfor suggest. of lightningMilton strike suggested deaths, with •70% Nine-year-old a more name deaths on the weekend than other days of the out of the funnies. A cartoon strip character week. named Barney was very popular. Milton chose Barney’s namefor for safety the number.

• The rule oflast thumb is “When thun•der Kasner announced the new name forshelters, the big roars, go indoors!” Sheds, picnic number in his next book, altering the spelling. tents, or covered porches do not provide ad•equate Sixty years later, from Larry lightning.

Page and Sergey protection A fullyBrin endeveloped a new internet search closed building is the safest place.engine.

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First aid/ •CPR They decided needed a name that should not bethey delayed. reflected how many websites the search • What are the odds of being struck by lightning? engine was searching. They took the name The are Kasner’s zero, provided you take the threat of odds Edward very large number, only seriously.

Otherwise, the average American they misspelled it slightly, so it ended up being has about exactly a 1 in 5,000 chanceway overthe the cartoon course spelled the same ofcharacter a lifetime.

Barney spelled his last name. What’s it called?

(Answer bottom of page) • We’ve all heard theatold saying that lightning COMPUTER FACTS never strikes the same place twice. Not so! It •very In 1981 Gates said, “640 ofand memory often Bill strikes the same place kb over over. ought to be enough for anybody.”

New York’s Empire State Building takes an avof 23Law hitsstates a year.

Virginiaperformance park ranger •erage Moore’s thatAcomputer doubles 18 to 24 months, and ever since was struckevery by lightning seven times between 1971, this1977, has been true.to many physical and 1942 and leading •psychological HP, Google, problems, Microsoft, including and Apple deep were deall started in garages. pression.

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