Aug 26-Toilet Paper, Mother Teresa, Rosie the Riveter, Melissa McCarthy, MacCauley Culkin, Florida Georgia Line

0:19 Hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and fact. Du it's about today. Today is August the twenty sixth. It is National Toilet Paper Day, possibly the most important day of the year. Now the first time in history that is documented that people started about wiping their booty. Yeah, it was the Romans. They used a kind of a sponge. Eighteen fifty seven. Toilet paper it began being sold in the United States was just flat sheets of rough paper.

1:03 Eighteen nineties. Seth Wheeler he created the first perforated rolls of toilet paper. So thank you, Seth. But it took until the nineteen thirties before toilet paper was actually considered to be splinter free. No, nineteen sixties toilet paper they started selling in different colors, pink and green and blue. Yeah, whatever match the decor of your bathroom. Two thousand and four it all stopped. No, I guess they didn't want to pollute the sewer system. Now, I think white was just a lot cheaper, except for France. Now you can actually get pink toilet paper over in France. Ah, you guys know how to celebrate the National toilet Paper Day. Get this in your lifetime. Three hundred and eighty four trees will be killed so that you can use toilet paper. Yeah, the average person's life. Yeah, eighty four trees and take up all their toilet paper. All right, let's see what happened in entertainment on August twenty sixth. Back in nineteen seventy five, number one album was One of These Nights by the Eagles, Hamilton, Joe Franks and Reynolds. They had the number one song with falling in Love.

1:58 You can the Things you meant to me, mysel sad because You've got the key. In the following in. Glynn Campbell have the numb one country song with Ryanstone Cowboy, But. I'm gonna be with the lights shining on me. Like a rhyme Storm Cowboy, Storm Cowboy.

2:46 The number one selling book was Ragtime to e l Doctor. Top movie was Jaws, A huge Shark goes crazy off of Long Island, the stars Roy Schreider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss. All right, what happened on August the twenty six, sixteen eighty two English astronomer Edmund Haley? He saw the comment that's gonna bear that bears his name today basically, yeah, except for the first time. Then he predicted that it would come back in seventeen fifty eight. Well, of course he didn't live long enough to see it, but it did come back in seventeen fifty eight. Since he was right, they just called it Haley's comment. Now it's gonna come back every seventy five years, So the next time we'll be seen here on earth will be twenty sixty one. But I saw it in nineteen eighty six. I think I'm good. In eighteen seventy three, outside of Saint Louis, Missouri, Susan blow. She didn't like that only kids whose parents had money could actually go to kindergarten. I mean, yes, public schools were free, but that's starting in first grade. Yeah.

3:38 Up until then, if you wanted your kid to go to kindergarten, you actually had to pay for it. She didn't think that right. So yeah, today she actually started free kindergartens sped all across the country. Now this might surprise you, though, kindergarten it's only mandatory in nineteen states. Yep, it's offered in all fifty states, but only nineteen of them you have to go. The other one is optional. Your kids don't have to start until first grade. Nineteen nineteen, the first black actor finally received a lot hong term movie contract oufter in Hollywood. He was seven year old Ernie Morrison. Yeah. He played Sunshine, Sammy and Booker t and The Hour Gang Movies nineteen sixty one. The Hockey Hall of Fame opened up in Toronto nineteen seventy three at the University of Texas and Arlington became the first accredited school to offer belly dancing as of Course. Twenty thirteen, in Liberia, all twenty five thousand people who applied to attend the University of Library failed their entrance exam.

4:28 Coke co joke co joke show dish shiverth day. He's gonna pause. He left this shiverthday. We want simple tage. He left this shibirth day. And you know we don't do the birthday, Okay. It was born on August at twenty sixth antone. Lorette d love as sewer Now. He was born in Paris in seventeen forty three. He was a spoiled, rich kid raised in nobility. Really didn't have anything to do like, but he loved chemistry and he was really good at it. He is the guy that figured out oxygen, so he named it. He figured out hydrogen, he named it. I couldn't find it, but he did predict silicon. Then he turned himself. Yeah, he became an ass in my view. Yeah, he was key in creating the metric system. Not a fan.

5:09 Seventeen ninety four, when he was fifty years old, he was basically charge was selling tobacco and tax fraud, so they gigilatined him for it. He has a proof smoking does kill you. But they never took him to quarter or anything. But they did take him to court a year and a half later. Yeah, they found him not guilty. Look at you, Saint Mother Treesa. She was born and what is today Skopji, North Macedonia, nineteen ten. When in nineteen twenty eight she left home. She moved to Ireland. She joined the Sisters of Loriedo. One year later she went on a mission to India. Never left. She took her vows as a nun in nineteen thirty one. Nineteen forty eight, she left her convent and started her own. She called it the Missionaries of Charity. Now that grid over forty five hundred nuns one hundred and three thirty or one hundred and thirty three countries still there. Now the key principal is to help the poorest of the poor.

5:55 It includes starting hospital schools, orphanages, classic, Yeah, whatever they need. Said. She died in nineteen ninety seven at eighty seven years old from congestive heartfire. Became a saint in twenty sixteen. Her feet stays going to be on September fifth, So it's coming up if you want to celebrate the life of mother Teresa. Naomi Parker Fraley. She was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in nineteen twenty one. Now, during World War Two, she was working as a lathe in an aircraft assembling plant. Now, she was kind of pretty, but she was buffed. I mean not like chubby or no, she was just ripped for being average sights. Well, they took a picture of her. They turned that picture of her into Rosie the Riveter. Yep, Rosie. She was that campaign slogan and the symbol for all the women working in the manufacturing plants during World War Two. Now, she ended up marrying a vorce in three times. She did have one cent from one of those boys. Now, Naomi, she died in twenty eighteen at ninety six years old.

6:46 Actor Chris Bark is sixty one. He's born in Point Lookout of New York in nineteen sixty five. Now he is born with Down syndrome. But that didn't hold Chris back, Nope, went into acting. He played Corky on the TV show Left Goes On. It's been on some other TV shows too. I see. Actress Melissa McCarthy's fifty six. She's born in Plainfield, Illinois, nineteen seventy now. Actress Jenny McCarthy Wohlmberg. Yeah, her cousin Melissa.

7:29 She first got known on the TIEV show Gilmore Girls. Then she hit really big on Mike and Mollie. She went on an Emmy playing Mollie. But she's been nominated five times. When she host a Saturday Night Live she won one time. She's been nominated for Oscars twice for Bridemaids and Can You Ever Forgive Me? Some of her other movies were Identity, Thief, Tammy, Central Intelligence, Down College, Melessa. She studied textiles. She wanted to go into the fashion industry. She was going in acting, and after she hit big in that fashion and acting, Yeah, started her own cleaning line. It's a plus size woman line. It fits sizes up to size twenty eight. Actually married in two thousand and five and they have two daughters. Actor McCauley. Culkin's forty six. He was born in Manhattan, New York. He was ten when he started playing Kevin in The Moving Home Alone.

8:10 Then he died The Sinkle My Girl, The good Son Richie Rich McCauley. He got married at eighteen. He got divorced at twenty two. Then he started dating his current girlfriend in two twenty seventeen. Yep. They have two sons. Actor Chris Pine. He's also forty six. He was born in Los Angeles. He played Captain Kirk And in three Star Trek movies. He's also been in What This Means, War Jack Ryan shadowco Wonder Woman in nineteen eighty four Dungeons and Dragons, Honor among Thieves hadn't married yet. First sow aberteen time owners stopping ride out of the sadon George Water Dollar she had and Liscon killed myself.

8:52 So I walked up and see every song my window down. That was Brian kill half of the country Duo Florida Georgia line. Well, at least he was I don't think they're gonna get back together. They took a hiatus three years ago. Yeah, I don't think it's going back. Brian. He's forty one, born nineteen eighty five and Ormond Beach, Florida. That's why he is the Florida Tyler Hubbard. He was the Georgia Now they formed Florida Georgia Line in twenty ten. Gone to Belmont University in Nashville. Now they are the only country artists to sell ten million albums when they released their first album. At the debut Now that song I played cruise, It is the most downloaded country song all time. Brian. He's released a couple solo songs. He hadn't released his first album yet. His other guy died.

9:37 He got married in twenty thirteen. Actor Dylan O'Brien was born in New York City in nineteen ninety one, so that makes him thirty five today. Start out on the TV show teen Wolf. Then he's been in the movie. He's played Thomas in those Maze Runner movies. He also voiced Bumblebee. Alright here quote of the day, It's gonna come from Pilot Charles Limberg. He died to day In nineteen seventy four, at seventy two years old, Charles says, if I had Joyce, I'd rather have birds and planes. Yeah, don't get that. Well, thank you all for listening. I do get that. We appreciate it and follow us on. Whoever you listen to is on comes. Here's a cool media dot com. Don't get to go to Country Underground Radio dot Com to make selections on who you want to hear country on radio artists today. It comes from Diana down in New South Wales, Austraia. She wants to hear Susanna Collie song steal Toes and stilledus. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.

10:24 I was one a farmer's daughter, drink wine like it was water. I never stood from being pushed around it as a kid, I drove the fergie, wasn't scared of getting dierdy, but I cleaned up good when Friday came around, I'm good. We'll still talk to stilettos. It's just the way my life goes. You can't fly until you learn to fall. It's always been my trouble. I like you Abby arm bubbles. They won't keep the Cinderella from the ball.

11:07 Hard work does never trouble. I learned to use a shovel and every tool you need to get it done. As a moonlight cast shadow, we'd sing around. That piano took me to where I am from where I'm from. Your am still don't talk to siletos. It's just sway my life goes. You can't fly until you learn to fall. It's always been my trouble. I like cavar bubbles. They won't keep the Cinderella around the ball.