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Around the turn of the century, roads were nothing more than dirt tracks. When it rained or snowed, they became mud tracks. There was no organized system of roads connecting places. America needed better roads.

• In 1919 young Lieutenant Colonel Dwight Eisenhower joined the military’s very first transcontinental trip. A three-mile long caravan of vehicles carrying 260 enlisted men, 35 officers, and a 15-piece band set off from the White House in Washington, D.C. for San Francisco, 3,251 miles away. It took them 62 grueling days to cross the country. They averaged five miles per hour on roads that ranged from fair to horrible.

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• Kansas was the first state to begin constructing their interstate highway. Eight days after Eisenhower was re-elected in 1956, the nation’s first stretch of Interstate opened near Topeka, only 70 miles from Eisenhower’s hometown of Abilene. That prompted work in states all over the nation, and construction proceeded at the average rate of 1,000 miles per year.

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• To construct the interstate highway system, enough concrete was poured to make a sidewalk extending from Earth to a point five times the distance to the moon. Enough earth was moved to cover the state of Connecticut knee deep in dirt.

• The Century Freeway in L.A. was opened in 1993, completing one of the final sections of interstate. By that time, over 90 percent of American households owned at least one vehicle.

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Slums spread. Another effect was that interstate interchanges attracted businesses that catered to highway travelers: gas stations, motels, restaurants, malls. As more and more businesses relocated to the highways, fewer and fewer people shopped in downtown districts, which often became derelict. In most cities around the world, real estate close to the city center is the most valuable property. In the U.S., the opposite is often true.

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When Charles Stratton was born in Connecticut in 1838, he weighed a healthy nine pounds, eight ounces. However, his parents soon noted that he wasn’t growing like other children. A malfunctioning pituitary gland slowed his growth, so at age four, he was only 25 inches long. He never grew much beyond that height. At the age of five he weighed exactly as much as he had at the age of 15 months. He was perfectly normal except for his size. He was not misshapen or ugly, but instead was perfectly proportioned, very attractive, and extremely intelligent. At the age of five Charles was first introduced to Phineas T. Barnum, and Barnum knew his fortune was made.

• Charles’ name was changed to General Tom Thumb, and he was billed as being 11 years old and from England, when in reality he was only 5 and from Connecticut. (When they travelled to Europe, he was billed as being American, and when he grew older his age was revised downward.) After being put on stage in a comedy routine with two 8-foot giants, Tom Thumb became the darling of the world. 15,000 people a day flocked to see him, each paying a quarter entrance fee.

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• Tom Thumb had a delightful sense of humor and impeccable manners. He had a gift for improvisation while on the stage. His specialty was imitating Napoleon Bonaparte, an act that won him world-wide renown. After traveling the world with Barnum, he returned to his hometown of Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he had a home built to scale, with furniture and furnishings constructed in exactly the correct proportions.

• When Barnum hired a 32-inch-tall female performer named Lavinia Warren Bump, Tom Thumb instantly fell in love, and the two were married. Their wedding was featured in every newspaper and magazine in the nation. The newlyweds toured the world together, performing in nearly 600 cities around the globe. By the time they returned to Connecticut, they had performed in front of more people than any other person in history – a record they held until the invention of the television. They were also rich beyond their wildest dreams. When Barnum went bankrupt after investing unwisely, it was Tom Thumb’s earning power that put him back on his feet.

• When Charles Stratton died of a stroke at the age of 45, he stood 3 feet, four inches tall and weighed just 71 pounds. More than 10,000 mourners attended his funeral, and newspapers around the world carried news of his death and descriptions of the funeral service.

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• Pregnant female need a meal of DEERE. JOHNmosquitoes DEERE. (continued): blood to get protein they need to lay their eggs.

• It was while living in Illinois that John noIf you look closely at a female mosquito, you ticed the problems that farmers faced when will see only one thin needle-like proboscis. attempting to till soil. Because the area had However, four different formerlythere been are woodland, the soiltools was inside rich thiswith sheath.

Two of them act like electric hummus, which clumped and clungcarvto ingthe knives, serrated thatwere sliceaccusup and bladeswith of the plowsedges farmers down to to drill a hole in repairing the donor’s skin.cirOne tomed using.

While a broken acts likesaw, a hose, injecting saliva which thinsHethe cular Deere stumbled upon an idea. blood, prevents it from clotting, and makes employed his smith skills to fashion the steel it easier suck. the of allergic reaction to this bladetointo theIt’s shape a plow.

He affixed two that wooden spokes, thenand hitched the device saliva causes the itch, the average time to a horse.

It plowed the heavy Illinois soil between the sting and the itch is three minutes. like a charm. fact, happened The fourth toolInacts asaafarmer straw,who drawing blood to be observing the test run immediately put into the mosquito’s body. In 90 seconds of suckin an order for his own John Deere plow. ing, she can take in more than her weight in supplying enough protein enable her •blood, In short order, Deere gave up histoblacksmith and focused oneggs. making plows. to shop lay several hundred After she’s The done company grewshe steadily and added manytoemlaying her eggs, immediately begins look ployees.

In the late 1840s, John relocated the for another blood meal so she can lay more. If operation to Moline, Illinois.

Ashamed sheentire escapes predators and other disasters, she of his own lack of education, John sent his can lay eggs some 20 times before dying of old to the state’s finest schools.

One only of agechildren after four or five months.

Fortunately, his proudest days occurred when son Charles about one out of every 200 female mosquitoes earned equivalent of an MBA from Bell’s lives longthe enough to reproduce.

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• Most mosquitoes feed on nectar, fruit juices, or • With his son Charles managing the company, honeydew excreted by aphids and other insects.

John found time to pursue philanthropic inOne kind lands on ants and thrusts its beak down terests.

He co-founded both the First Nationthealant’s gullet to rob it of semi-digested food.

Bank and the First Congregational Church.In Steven Speilberg’s Jurassic Park inscientists He was elected thefilm mayor of Moline 1873, discover a giant ancient mosquito of the species where one of his first actions – the replaceToxorynchites trapped in amber.

Finding that ment of the city’s open drains with a sewer thepipe mosquito on acountless dinosaurlives before becomsystem fed – saved by reducinging trapped, theyof use DNA from the dinosaur the spread disease. reconstruct new dinosaurs.

However, •blood The to original John Deere logo, registered in the1876, Toxorynchites was one breed of depicted a deer that was native mosquito to Afrithatca.never fed on blood, plantitjuices.

Thirty-six years later,only in 1912, was re-Its mouth parts weren’t set up for piercing skin and placed with the image of a North American sucking blood. deer. In the decades that folwhite-tailed lowed, the now-familiar “outline” logo took Thanks for Reading Tidbits! over as the symbol of the John Deere brand.

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