Feb 29th-Leap Day, 1st Black Medal of Honor winner, Dinah Shore, Pope John Paul II hit by a Nazi truck

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Hi everyone, I am Jeff and
welcome to history and factoids about today.

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Visit about Cool Media. Day is
February the twenty ninth. Everybody, stand

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up, celebrate This year's a leap
key with one extra day. It's called

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leap Day, and it was necessary
to add a day every four years to

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February. It is leap day to
day. We all get a bonus day

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to day now. It actually takes
Earth three hundred and sixty five days and

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around six hours to orbit the Sun
every year, so every four years we

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just added data February to keep our
calendars accurate. So how you gonna spend

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your free day? Well, you
can do something really productive and kind of

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just waste it. Now. Most
restaurants are having deals today to some of

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them are to Potlet, Krispy Kreme, Long John Silver's, Marco's, Beats,

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His Noodles and Company, Papa Murphy's, Wendy's. That's something you can

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do. But whatever you do,
just enjoy the hell out of Leap Day.

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You can't celebrate it again until twenty
twenty eight. All right, let's

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who's going on in February twenty ninth
and the year two thousand and five actually

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this is February twenty eighth. Yeah. The number one album was Seventeen Days

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by Three Doors Down. Murrio had
the number one song with let Me Love

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You. You should let me love
you, Let Me be the one shoes

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give you heavy thing, you fault
in me a heavy good thousand put sex,

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make me your selection, show you
the will of Suples Soup beats Rascal

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Flats. They had the number one
country song where bless the Broken Road,

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me on intin your loving Noise,
This much News wi is trust the Broken

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Roll mestay to. The number one
book was Honeymoon by James Patterson and Howard

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Ruffin. The top movie was The
Pacifier, a Navy seal he has to

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protect the five kids of a government
scientist who was killed working on a top

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secret project, star Vin Diesel and
Britney Snow in nineteen forty How do he

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McDaniel? She won an Oscar for
her role and Gone with the Wind.

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She was the first black actress or
actor to win one. All right,

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let's see it happened in the world
on Leap Day in fifteen oh four on

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the island of Jamaica. Christopher Columbus
he knew there was going to be a

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solar eclipse today, so he and
his men they were not getting along with

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the Jamaican natives there, and his
things just got ready to get violent.

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Columbus told all the Jamaicans if they
didn't do what he said and bring him

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and his men some food, He's
going to take away the sun. The

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Jamaicans didn't blame him until the clips
started. Then the Jamaican's agreed to do

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whatever he said. In nineteen forty
four, overrom Poland, twenty three year

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old Carol washed Taya he was walking
home from his job in a quarry where

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he was just performing manual labor when
a German Nazi army truck hit him yes

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sent him flying unconsciously. Now,
sadly that wasn't that all uncommon as the

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German's occupied Poland at the time,
But what was really uncommon was the German

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officer on the truck that hit him
stopped and started treating his injuries. Then

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he ordered another truck to be used
as an ambulance and they took him to

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the hospital. Carrollly spent two weeks
in the hospital recovering from a very severe

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concussion and shoulder injury and a lot
of cuts and bruises. Now, when

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he was released from the hospital,
it confirmed in Carol's mind. Then he

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was supposed to become a priest.
Well, he did become a priest two

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and a half years later. Then
in nineteen seventy eight he became Pope John

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Paul the Second Stock. A little
high school basketball It was nineteen sixty four,

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North Carolina. A high school basketball
game ended up fifty six to fifty

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four. So what well that was
after thirteen overtimes. Goat show this shibf

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day. We're gonna pause. He
left this shivers day. We want simple

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tage. He left this Shibirf day. And you know we don't give up

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because that's birthday, all right.
He was born on February of the twenty

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ninth, William Carney. He was
born a slave near Norfolk, Virginia,

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in eighteen forty. Now he has
skaped through the underground railroad. Then he

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joined the Massachusetts Voluntary Infantry to fight
in Civil War in eighteen sixty three at

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the Battle of Fort Wagner in South
Carolina. While he was already wounded,

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he heroically protected the American flag in
the battle. He is the first black

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American to have received the Medal of
Honor. He didn't know that's the highest

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military decoration anyone can receive. After
the war, he was a maleman in

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Bedford, Massachusetts for thirty two years. There's an elementary school in Bedford that's

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named after him. He was married
and him and his wife they had one

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daughter. He died from an elevator
accident in nineteen oh eight at sixty eight

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years old. East See is west
Don the wrong one I have chose.

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Let's score. Keep on aware of
those frills and flowers and buttons and bowls,

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rings and things and buttons and bowl
She was Dinah Shore. She was

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born in Winchester, Tennessee, in
nineteen sixteen. Now she was the first

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female singer to actually have huge success. From the nineteen forty to nineteen fifty

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seven, she had eighty hit songs. Then she did a couple movies.

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Then she spent the next forty years
on TV. She had her own music

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variety show, and then she had
a couple of talk shows. She did

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a bunch of specials and stuff.
She was married to her first husband for

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nineteen years and they had a son
and a daughter. Then she married at

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tennis pro for a year. Then
she dated Burt Reynolds for six years.

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Burt Reynolds or twenty years younger than
Dinah. She loved playing golf, and

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in nineteen seventy two she founded the
Dinoshaur Golf Tournament. Today it's one of

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the major tournaments in the female professional
golf circuit. She died from ovarian cancer

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in nineteen ninety four, at seventy
seven years old. I'm just outside the

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fast falsis to see that hoop jack
you raise saft, I'm gonna small.

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I love fasting your fast and hitting
your Oh wow, Apprecia, Who can

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U can? Rapper joh Ruhl,
He's forty eight. He is one of

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Queen's New York in nineteen seventy six, probably best known for blending gangster rap

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and commercially pop music together. Sold
over thirty million records. Probably would have

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sold more, but he spent a
lot of time going in and out of

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prison. Now, he did get
his ged in prison in twenty twelve,

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so he's got that. He got
married in two thousand and one and they

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have three children. Jah. He
is supposed to be kicking off a European

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tour right now. But see the
UK, they denied him from enter in

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their country. Yeah, because of
his criminal record. So I don't know

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if the whole tour is going to
be counseled. They're just the UK.

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Actor Peter Skeneveno. He's forty four. He's born in Denver, Colorado,

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in nineteen eighty. He has played
Detective Dominic Carissi on Lawn Order Special Victims

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Gennisons twenty thirteen. He got married
in twenty eleven and him his wife.

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She's a painter, but not a
house painter. She paints portraits and crup.

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They have three children. All right, today's fact to it. That

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will win you a beer. The
odds of being born on leap day are

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one and one one in one thousand
and four and sixty one. That's how

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many days are between leap years.
So according to the Social Security Administration,

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three three hundred and sixty two nine
hundred people in America have February twenty ninth

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is their birthday. One point six
million have March first. Well, as

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they say in Greenland, kujian kock
that and thanks for joining us today and

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all that kind of stuff. Let's send

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today with Davy jones Jee the former
Monkey died today in twenty twelve at sixty

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six years old. He said,
Justin Bieber stole my haircut. N's a

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row stole my dance. You guys
have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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