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1. 1620: Peregrine White was the first child born in New England to English parents.
2. 1789: New Jersey became the first State to ratify the Bill of Rights.
3. 1889: Edwin Hubble, American astronomer, was born.
4. 1893: The US Supreme Court ruled that the Great Lakes and their connecting waters constitute ‘high seas.’
5. 1910: Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, died.
6. 1959: Ford stopped production of the unpopular Edsel.
7. 1966: The musical “Cabaret,” with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, opened on Broadway.
8. 1984: The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Project is founded.
9. 1985: Microsoft released Windows 1.0 for personal computers.
10. 2006: Nintendo’s Wii game system debuted to mobs of prospective buyers.
11. Great American Smokeout
12. Absurdity Day
13. Universal Children’s Day

Since it’s Thursday the Thirteenth, I figured I’d share 13 random facts about myself.

1. My thumbs are double-jointed.
2. I published my first comic strip at age nine.
3. I have visual hyper-acuity.
4. I compulsively make lists.
5. I once had a pet opossum.
6. My favorite color is green, but most of my wardrobe is black.
7. I’d like to see the return of Victorian fashion sense.
8. I like B-Movies.
9. My favorite food is fried chicken.
10. I wrote an 80k-word novel in 28 days.
11. I have an elevated immunity to spider venom.
12. I’ve lived in California, Colorado, Illinois and Texas.
13. My biggest fear is being hit by a car because the driver was on the phone.

1. Earth is also known as Terra, the World, and Gaia; also, the surface particulates of the planet are known collectively as earth (dirt).
2. Our plant’s circumference is roughly 24,901 miles (40,075 km).
3. Earth is the largest of the inner planets (largest to smallest: Earth, Venus, Mars and Mercury).
4. The planet is approximately 4.54 billion years old.
5. Life has probably existed on Earth’s surface for some 3.5 billion years.
6. The planet rotates on an axis tilted 23.4 degrees past the perpendicular to orbital plane.
7. Approximately every 366.26 rotations, Earth completes an orbit of the Sun.
8. Earth is made up of layers: a crust of tectonic plates and bodies of water; a mantle of viscous minerals; a liquid outer core, and a solid inner core of iron.
9. Our planet’s crust is made up mostly of silica, followed by aluminum, lime, magnesia, sodium, and iron.
10. 71% of Earth’s surface is covered by salt water.
11. The planet produces a magnetic field; at irregular intervals the polarity of the fields reverse.
12. Earth has one satellite, the Moon, which creates tides on the planet due to gravitational attraction.
13. Our planet is home to millions of species, and humans alone count near 7 billion lives.