Dec 18th-Buddy the Elf, New Jersey BDAY Keith Richards, Steven Spielberg, Brad Pitt, Christina Aguilera, Billie Eilish

0:10 Well, hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and Factoids. About today isn't about cool media. Today's December the eighteenth. Hoday Elf? What's your favorite colors for this? Hoay Elf? What's your favorite colors for this? Hoday the helf? What's your favorite colors for this? Today is national answer the phone like Buddy the Elf. Day Oh, come on, have some fun Buddy the Elf. He is played by Will Ferrell in the movie Elf Today. We are all supposed to add a little Elf behavior to our day now. With the hustle and bustle during the holiday season, everyone can use a little smile or a giggle. So be silly today. Enjoy the season, you know, wear an ugly sweater, holiday socks, Santa hat, elf shoes, and when you answer the phone, you're supposed to state your name, call yourself an elf and ask the person what their favorite color is.

0:59 Just have fun silly day to day, all right, this is going on entertainment nine December the eighteenth. Let's Back to nineteen seventy seven number one album was a Simple Drains by Linda Ronstan. Debbie Boone add the number one song with you Light Up My Life and you, Dolly Parton add the number one country song with here You Come Again Here nobody has a higging me so again.

1:57 The number one book was A Silimer sil Marillion by J. R. Tolkien. The top movie was A Saturday Night Fever. A nineteen year old escapes the fact that he has no future by dominating the dance for at the local disco. Starrs, John Travolta, Karen Lyne Gurney, and Barry Miller nineteen sixty six have a Great Store. Christmas made his date TV debut, been on every year since, and they even made two full length movies off of it. Two thousand and nine, the movie Avatar was released in the theater. It's highest grossing movie of all times, made almost three billion dollars. All right, let's say it happened on December the eighteenth, Happy Birthday, New Jersey. It was today. In seventeen eighty seven, New Jersey became the third state. It is named after the Isle of Jersey in the English Channel. New Jersey is the most densely populated of all the fifty states.

3:05 Capital is Trenton. Highest point is high Point at eight one eight hundred and three feet New Jersey state bird is the eastern golf finch. Fish is the brook trout mammals. The horse tree is the northern red oak. State food and state fruit are the same. It's the Northern high Bush blueberry. Some people born in New Jersey Frank Sinatra, Whitney Houston, Meryl stra Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Shaquille O'Neal, Joe Peshy, Ice t, John Bon Julie. Yeah, just some of the people born in the Garden State. Eighteen eighty eight. Rancher Richard Witherell and his brother in law. They're out looking for some cattle when they discovered the Anasazi ruins. Yeah, they have the Masa Verdi in Colorado. Eighteen ninety eight.

3:47 In Paris, France, Count Gaston die Schizzeloup Labat. He set the first automobile speed record. He got his car up to a wopping thirty nine miles an hour. San Francisco. In nineteen thirty six, they held a party of all parties. Man. They welcomed Sulin from China. Sulin she was the first giant panda to ever go outside of China. Sulan it means very cute now. Sadly though, Sulennz. She only died two years later. Yeah, they performed an our dopsy on her and they found out that she was actually a male panda. And they never did figure out why Sue Lynn died. In twenty twelve, the Great Maple Syrup Pie went down in Quebec, Canada place they were able to rest seventeen people for stealing three thousand tons of maple syrup from a storage facility. Joke, joke, joke, joke. Shog thish shibf days. He left this shubf day. We want simple cage. He let thish shiburt day. And you you don't do. Let's just see who was born on December the eighteenth. Actress singer pit up Girl Betty Grable was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, in nineteen sixteen. During the nineteen thirties and forties, she made over forty movies. Those movies made over one hundred million dollars, which is huge.

4:58 Back then, it'd be like all all to an a billionaire. Now. During World War Two, there's a pinapp poster of Betty. It was her and her bathing suit. It was the number one selling post of the entire World War two now she was so such a big section and her legs even is shirt for a million bucks. She has married to her second husband for twenty two years and they had two daughters before divorcing Betty. She died from lung cancer in nineteen seventy three at fifty six years old. Sasta sets now. No one is quite sure how, but the Rolling Stone guitarist Keith Richards is eighty one today.

5:47 He's born in Dartford, England, in nineteen forty three. Him and Mick Jagger formed the Rolling Stones in nineteen sixty two. They pretty much co wrote all our songs. They slog over two and are forty million records now. Keith, they let him sing lead on one song every concert. He has his choice between three. He can either sing Happy Before They Make Me Run or Connection Kathi. These are released three solo albums on the side. Over the years, he had three daughters from a girlfriend. Then he married in nineteen eighty three and they have two daughters. Movie maker Steven spielbergers seventy eight. He's born in Cincinnati, Ohio in nineteen forty six. His movies has made over ten billion dollars. He's been nominated for twenty four Oscars. He's won three. He got Best Picture and Best Director for Shindler's List and Best Director for Saving Private Ryan. His first movie Sugarland Express. It starred goldiehn Now. His first wife was actors Amy Ermi or Amy Irving, and they had a son. Then he married actress Kate Kapshaw in nineteen ninety one. They have five kids. Spielberg, he was diagnosed with dick slexia when he was sixty years old, so I probably really hoped his career. Actor ray Leota.

6:49 He was born in Newark, New Jersey, in nineteen fifty four. He first got known in the movie Something Wild. Then he played chieless Joe Jackson in Field the Dreams. Then he had really big and good fellows. He's at over seven. He married once for seven years and had a daughter from it. Ray He died in his sleep in twenty twenty two at sixty seven years old. N all right, and he guesses that was Brad Pitt in the movie Johnny Swede. Brady's sixty one. He's born in Shannie, Oklahoma, in nineteen sixty three. Grew up in Springfield, Missouri. He won a Best Picture Art Oscar for twelve Years of Slave.

7:44 He was a producer of that. Then he won an acting Oscar for Once upon a Time in Hollywood, be nominated for Moneyball, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and then Twelve Monkeys. I think his best acting job goes back to nineteen ninety three in the movie California It Starts with a K. He played a serial killer Brad. He married actress Jennifer Anderston for almost five years, and then he married actress Angelina Jolie for six years. They had six children, three biological and three adopted Woman Little Bring, Brandy Bed and Dad Dandy's Challenge and where jeemes with open bring don't need to change in time. I'm doing it out in my boo. That's country singer Randy Hauser.

8:32 He was born in Lake, Mississippi, in nineteen seventy five. He's forty nine. Rand. He started as a songwriter. He's the one who wrote Trace Akins song Honky Dunk but dunka Dunk. Then in two thousand and eight they let Randy sing. Some of his hits are Boots on, How Country Feels, Running out of Moonlight, good Night Kiss. He had a son from his first wife, He's been married to a second wife since twenty sixteen and they have two sons. Actress Katie Olms is forty six. She was born in Toledo, Ohio, in nineteen seventy eight. She first hit big Starr on the TV show Dawson Creek and some of her movie is Our Phone Booth Batman begins Jack and Jill first daughter. She married Tom Critis for six years and they had a daughter together. Excuse me, I'm tanging. Christina Aguilera she was born in nineteen eighty in New York City. She's forty four today. She has a four octave range voice, so apparently that's pretty uncommon, so that's why they call her the voice of a generation, your younger generation. My generation we had Pat Benintar. She has a four point five octave voice. Christina. She started out in the Mickey Mouse Club when she was thirteen.

9:52 Now she sold the undred million records Jeanie in a Bottle, What a Girl Wants, Lady Marmalade Beautiful, That's some of them. She speaks and sings and in Spanish and English. Now she started in the movie Burlesque Cher. She was married once for six years and has a son from it. Then she has a daughter from her fiance. They've been in Gates since twenty fourteen. Sweet, it's fun like you really well, I just can't get enough science just always so. I'm not bad, makes you no sad? Size makes you girl friend? Last side I'm good duh. Twenty three year old Billie Eilish was born in Los Angeles in two thousand and one. She released her first single, Ocean Eyes, in twenty fifteen. In twenty nineteen, that song that I played bad guys, it was the number one selling song in the world. Billy, she won an Academy Award. Yeah, she won it for her song No Time to Die.

10:46 It was in the James Bond movie No Time to Die. In twenty twenty five, Billy, she will be on a world tour. So if you want to see her concert, won't see her here in the States. Alrighty, I think we all know that it was a gift, But did you actually know that the Statue of Liberty is considered the largest Christmas gift ever given. Yeah, France gave it to the United States. Is a Christmas gift in eighteen eighty six. Well, thank you all for listening today. No, forget to follow us on whoever you listen to us on. Come see it's at cool media dot com. That's cool at three of us. Let's end. Let's end with Chris Farley. Well, I'm here to tell you that you're probably gonna find out as you go out there that you're not going to amount didn't Jack squat. You're gonna end up eating his steady dyeing of government cheese and living in a bay I'm known by the river. Chris died today. In nineteen ninety seven at thirty three years old. Chris said, I signed on as a clown, and by golly, I'm gonna keep my end of the bargain. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow s.