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

0:10 Hello everybody, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids. About to day isn't about cool meeting. It is August the twenty fifth. It is Nashville toilet Paper Day, possibly the most important day of the year. The first time in history that is documented that somebody talked about wiping your butt. Well, it's the Roman Empire. They used a type of a sponge. Eighteen fifty seven, toilet paper began being sold in the United States. Now it was just flat sheets of rough paper. Eighteen ninety Seth Wheeler he created the first perforated roles toilet paper. So thank you, Seth.

1:02 But it took until the nineteen thirties before toilet paper was considered a splinter free go. Now, the nineteen sixties, they started selling toilet paper in different colors pink, green, blue, you know, whatever match to decore of your bathroom. Then in two thousand and four they stopped. Yeah, they said that, Well, maybe they thought the dye might be bad for your skin, but it wasn't. Then they thought the dye might be bad for the environment, that wasn't. Well, it turns out white toilet paper is a lot cheaper. Just to make it all in without the dye. So that's why they stopped selling scept France. You can still get pink toilet paper over there. Now you all don't need me. You know how to celebrate with toilet paper today? All right, this is going on in entertainment on August the twenty six. Let's go back to nineteen ninety one number one album was The Unforgettable with Love by Natalie Cole. Brian Adams had the number one song with Everything I'd do, I'd do it for you.

1:50 It's not you can't me, it's not wild, it's true ever, said Julisful. George Strait. He had the number one country song with you know Me better than that? Did you see O my chonges? You know our race? Don't fall? Oh? She tells her friends I'm perfect and then I love her cat.

2:33 But you know me better than that? The number one book was The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy. Tom movie was Dead Again an orphanage. They take in a woman who lost her memory, but a private bart Lie, private eye. He's trying to track her down. But if he finds her, yeah, both their lives might me and jeopardy then stars Kenneth Branna, Andy Garcia and Emma Thompson. Let's see what happened in August twenty sixth Oh, we know why it was a national toilet paper today because crap didn't happen today. Sixteen eighty two English astronomer Edmund Haley. He saw that comment, this named after him for the first time. Then he predicted he'll 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. Sir, every won't say, hey, Hayley was right, So let's call the comment Hayley's comment.

3:18 Now that comes back every seventy five years, so next time Earth will be able to say it is twenty sixty one. Nineteen nineteen, it was the first black actor ever the song a lin turn long term movie contract, seven year old Ernie Morrison. Yeah, he played Sunshine Samy and Booker t in all those Hour Gang movies. Nineteen seventy three at the University of Texas, they became the first accredited school to offer billy dancing as a course in Africa and twenty thirteen in Liberia. Now all twenty five thousand people who applied to go to the University of Liberia. Yeah, they failed their entrance exam. Cot coke coke co coat show this shimday. We're gonna pause. He left this shiver day, simpleage.

4:01 Like this ship birthday. And you know we don't get because that's worth to you. So I was born on August the twenty sixth. Antoine Lorette de love Aschuer. He was born in Paris in seventeen forty three. Now he was a spoiled rich kid, raises and nobly. He didn't really have anything to do in life, but he loved chemistry and he's really good at it. He's the one who figured out oxygen. Yep, he named it. Then he figured out hydrogen, he named it. I couldn't find it. But he's the one that predicted silicon. Then he became one of the key people in creating the metric system. Seventeen ninety four, at fifty years old, he was charged with selling tobacco and tax fraud. So they guillotined him. Well, they said smoking would kill you, right, but on the bright side, he was found not guilty a year and a half later. Saint Mother Teresa. She was born on what today is Copage, Macedonia. In nineteen ten nineteen twenty eight, she left home and moved to Ireland.

4:51 She doing the Sisters of the Rado. One year later she went on her mission to India and never came back. Then she took her vows as a nun. In nineteen thirty one nineteen forty eight, she left her covenant and she started her own. She called it Missionaries of Sorry Missionaries of Charity. Now it grewed over forty five hundred nuns and one hundred and thirty three countries and it's still there now. Their principal vow is to help the poorest of the poor, which includes starting hospital schools, orphanages, clinics, whatever needs to be done. Mother Teresa died in nineteen ninety seven at eighty seven years old. She became a saint in twenty sixteen. Her feast day is September fifth, so it's coming up if you want to celebrate Mother Teresa. Naomi Parker Farley. She was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in nineteen twenty one. During World War Two, she was working on a lathe in an aircraft assembly plant, and she was kind of pretty, but she was really buffed. Now a picture was taken over. She became Rosie the Riveter. Yeah, that was a symbol for all women working in manufacturing plants during World War Two. That's whose picture we have for today's show. She married, divorce three times. She had one son. She died in twenty eighteen at ninety six years old. Actor Chris Burke. He's fifty nine. He was born a Point Lookout in New York in nineteen sixty five.

6:01 He's born with Down syndromes, but that didn't hold Chris back. He still became an actor. He got known playing Kirky and the TV show Life Goes On. He's made some other TV appearances and he did some TV movies. The best time. I see. Actress Melissa mccarthay. She's fifty four. She was born in Plainfield, Illinois, in nineteen seventy. First got known on TV is The Gilmore Girls. Then she hit really big on Mike and Molly in her movie. She's be nominated for Oscars twice for Bride'smaids and Can You Ever Forgive Me? Some of her other big movies her identity Thief Tammy, Central Intelligence. Now in college, Melissa, she studied textile.

6:51 She wanted to go into fashion, so after she succeeded in acting, she started on clothing line. So that makes sense. It's a plus sized woman in line. It fits up to size twenty eight. Melissa. She married in two thousand and five and they have two daughters. Actor Mccauleay Kulka and he was born in nineteen eighty in New York City, forty four. First ted when he was ten years old and the movie Home Alone, then it sequel My Girl, The good Son Richie Rich. His aunt is actor is Bonnie Bidiaz. She's the wife in all those Diehard movies. Now mccaullaughey. He married at eighteen, divorced to twenty two. He started dating his girl for Currant girlfriend in twenty seventeen and they have two sons. Actor Chris Pine. He's also forty four. He was born in Los Angeles. First got known in the movie The Princess Diary Too. Then he played Captain Kirk and a whole bunch of Star Trek movies. He was in Wonder Woman and then he was Cinderella's Prince Into the Woods. He hasn't married yet.

7:41 Come first, I aver teen times. She's stopping ride out of the South George watercol over. She had Lisconn held myself, so I walked up and say every lady song that was Brian Kelly. Half of the country due Florida Georgia Line. He was Florida why well. He was born in Ormond Beach, Florida, in nineteen eighty five. He's thirty nine. Now it's partner Tyler, however, he was born in Georgia. Brian and Tyler they formed Florida Georgia Line in twenty ten. Yeah, they met going to Belmont University where they're both studying. Now. They are the only country artists to sell ten million albums on their very debut album. Now that song we played cruise It is the most digitally downloaded in country song of all time. Also have eighteen number one songs.

8:30 But as of two years ago, Florida Georgia Line are an indefinite hiatus. Yeah, the guys are out doing their own thing now. Brian he married in twenty thirteen actor Dylan O'Brien. He's thirty three. He's born in New York City in nineteen ninety one. Started out on the TV show teen Wolf, and then he played Thomas and the Mayze Runner movies. Now he's also the voice of Bumblebee. You know what, let's go back to toilet paper. About four billion people or seventy to seventy five percent of all the people in the world don't use toilet paper. Nope, it's still expensive. Plus they're plumbing can't handle it. And in your lifetime you will use It will take about three hundred and eighty four trees to make all the toilet paper that you'll use during that lifetime. Oh, thank you for being here today. We appreciate you. Don't forget about Country Underground Radio, one of the top Internet country radio stations out there. You can go to Coolmedia dot com or just Country Underground Radio dot com and check it out there and it's everywhere that plays the internet radio.

9:21 Let's end with Pilot Charles Lindberg. You died today in nineteen seventy four, at seventy two years old. Charles said, if I had a choice, I'd rather have birds and planes. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. No