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  1. JAN8 BDAYS Newsman Charles Osgood in 1933 (age 77) Bob Eubanks in 1938 (age 72) Singer David Bowie in 1947 (age 63)
  2. Jan8 2004, the U.S. Defense Department announced it had designated former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein a prisoner of war.
  3. Jan8 1991, Pan American World Airways filed for bankruptcy.
  4. Jan8 1987, Kay Orr was inaugurated in Lincoln, Neb., as the nation's first woman Republican governor.
  5. Jan8 1976, Chinese Premier Chou En-lai died in Beijing.
  6. Jan8 1867, the U.S. Congress approved legislation that, for the first time, allowed blacks to vote in the District of Columbia.
  7. Jan8 1815, the forces of U.S. Gen. Andrew Jackson decisively defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans
  8. January 8th, 1958, Bobby Fischer won the United States Chess Championship at age 14.
  9. The brass family of instruments include the trumpet, trombone, tuba, cornet, flügelhorn, French horn, saxhorn, and sousaphone.
  10. The Netherlands are the lowest country in the world. It is estimated that 40 percent of the land is below sea level.
  11. Moths and butterflies pollinate flowers in the same manner as bees – they move from plant to plant carrying pollen on their hairy feet
  12. Disposable diapers in the United States make up enough trash to fill a barge half a city block long, every six hours, every day.
  13. At sea level, there are 2,000 pounds of air pressure on each square foot of your body.
  14. The Penny is the only coin currently minted in the United States with a profile that faces to the right.
  15. The Viking alphabet was called the Futhark. The letters, called "runes," were made from straight lines,
  16. The name of the Internet's most popular directory,is n acronym. "Yahoo" stands 4 "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle." Do you Yahoo?
  17. Bananas do not grow on trees. They grow on plants that are giant herbs and are related to the lily and orchid family.
  18. The term "hush money," meaning a bribe to keep someone form revealing scandalous or damaging information, was first used in the early 1700s.
  19. Henry Kaiser once said, "Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
  20. It is not strange... to mistake change for progress. Millard Fillmore (1800-1874) 13th United States President