Jan. 2, 2026

Jan 3rd-Happy Birthday Alaska, Mel Gibson, Danica McKellar, Solomon Northrup JRR Tolkien, Drinking Straw Invented

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National fruitcake toss day. Entertainment from 2019. Martin Luther excommunicated, Alaska became 49th state, Motorola clam shell flip phone went on sale, Bit Coin created. Todays Birthdays - J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephen Stills, Victoria Principal, Mel Gibson, Danica McKellar. Conrad Hilton died. (2025)

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Fruitcake toss - Page Turner
Thank U next - Ariana Grande
Speechless - Dan & Shay
RESPECT - Aretha Franklin
Birthday - The Beatles
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Southern cross - Crosby, Stills & Nash
All I have to do is dream - Andy Gibb and Victoria Principle
The Wonder Years TV theme
Exit - It's not love - Dokken http://dokken.net/

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Oh, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and Facto.

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It's about today visited by cool Media. It is January

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the third.

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Bay Lady Sad Friday. As long as you've been by

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here the streets sat.

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Fruitcage.

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Today is National Fruitcake Toss Day. The first great fruitcake

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toss was Hella Manito Springs, Colorado in nineteen ninety six,

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gotten bigger every year and sped across the whole country.

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I guess tossing is better than regifting it. When President

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Grover Cleveland got married in eighteen eighty six, the fruitcake

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from his wedding it's still on display and called long

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New Jersey must be where they got married. Now, I

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guess just have fun chucking some fruitcake today. If you

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don't want to eat it, you're going on and entertainment

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on January third, it's about your. Twenty nineteen number one

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album was I Am I Was by twenty one Savages.

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Ariana Granton had the number one song with thank You,

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next one some.

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Of the Jah so Amazing love Town, that's not what

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six Look what I go look launch its on me

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that I read.

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Staky Spanky jan and Shay had the number one country

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song was speechless. I thank god you can read that.

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It's really loo can read with those sids.

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Speechess, that's just standing there in that chest. Well a

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student's homey heye, a secret.

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This quashing you is all I can do.

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The number one book was The Reckoning by John Grisham.

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Top movie was The Upside, A rich squadriplegiack here as

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a criminal to help him. Ount stars Brian Cranston, Kevin Hart,

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and Nicole Kidman.

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Upg Means to Meg.

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Nineteen eighty seven, Rita Franklin. She began the first female

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artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall

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of Fame. All right, what happened on January the third,

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fifteen twenty one. Pope Leo the Tenth he excommunicated Martin

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Luther from the Roman Catholic Church. Martin he was a

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Cathol priest. Then he wrote his ninety five thesises on

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what was wrong with the Church. Yeah, he'd to go

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into hiding. Start out translating the Bible into germansy back

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then all the Bibles are actually written in Latin. But

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that whole thing had started the president Protestant Reformation that

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ended up split in Europe. And half the northern half

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went Lutheran Southern af State Catholic. During the American Revolution

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in seventeen seventy seven, the colonial army, led by General

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George Washington defeated the British at the Battle of Princeton,

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New Jersey. Yeah, it was a really big win for

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the American exactly. They hadn't won a fight in a

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long time. Now, have you seen the movie or read

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the book Twelve Years of Slave? It was today in

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eighteen fifty three of the Solomon Northrop he regained his

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freedom after being illegally held as a slave. See Solomon.

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He was a black man who was born free in

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New York. Then he was kidnapped taking Louisiana and sold

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into slavery. Took twelve words twelve years in order to

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get word up north that and what had happened to him.

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Finally Governor Washington Hunt heard about what happened and he

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was able to free Solomon. Drink and straws now, they

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were originally just strands of rye grass. Yeah, that's what

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we was gonna suck their drinks with. That's why they're

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called straws. In eighteen eighty eight, Marvin Stone in Washington, DC.

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He invented the first man made drinking straw. It was

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rolled up paper covered in wax. The high society people

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thought it was more passion to find than drinking out

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of a straw. Happy Birthday, Alaska, it was today In

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nineteen fifty nine, Alaska begain the forty nine state. Alaska

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is an eleot Indian word that means the object at

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which the sea is directed or mainland. Now it's the

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largest state, almost two and a half times bigger than Texas.

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Alaska's capital is Juno. Highest point is Dnali at twenty

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three and ten feet, highest point in North America. Alaska

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state bird is the willow Ptarmigan fish is the King

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Salmon flowers to forget me, not Trey Sikes. Spruce land

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mammal is the moos Sea mammal is the bowhead whale.

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Alaska state dog Alaska melamout. Some people born in Alaska

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baseball pitcher Kurt schillang pilot, Jimmy Doolittle, hockey player Scott Gomez, skier,

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Tommy mo painter, Bob Ross, football player Mark slairth some

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of the people born in the last Frontier. Now, are

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you old enough to remember that clamshell flip phones nineteen

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ninety six Motorola. They started selling them, so if you remember,

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and you probably had when they sold sixty million of them.

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Two thousand and nine, Bitcoin was created. Start out free. Yeah,

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you can get your bitcoin for free. By twenty eleven

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they had gone up to one dollar. Boot goojoke, goat show.

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Just shivers Day, gonna pause.

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He left this shiver day. We want simple tar like

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this shivers Day and you don't.

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Okay Who was born on January the third, Rider j

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R r to. He was born in Bloomenfontaine, South Africa

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in eighteen ninety two. JRR It stands for John Ronald Rule.

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After fighting in World War War he came back and

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got his first job. He was working for the Oxford

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English Dictionary. He was responsible for the letter W on

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the side. He started writing his fantasy novels. Then he

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hit really big with his books The Hobbit and Lord

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of the Rings. Married in nineteen sixteen. They had three

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sons and one daughter, Tolkian. He died in nineteen seventy

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three and eighty one years old from a bleeding ulcer.

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And you know what weed.

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The Stills and Crosbie Stills in Nash is Steven Stills.

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He's eighty today. Born in Dallas, Texas in nineteen forty five.

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Start out in the band in Buffalo Springfield. Then he

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got together with David Grosby and Graham Nash in nineteen

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sixty eight. Now he's in the Rock and Roll Hall

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of Fame for Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Steals and Nash Stills.

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He mostly played guitar and sing harmony. He had a

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son from his first wife, and he had a daughter

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from his second wife. Married his third wife in nineteen

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ninety six. Oh and he also has five kids and

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fine women. He didn't marry Jesus. That was actress Victoria

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Principal singing with her boyfriend at the time, Andy Gibb.

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All I have to do is dream Now. She dumped

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him shortly after they released that song. She getting the

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oil to me at him drugs are me? He chose drugs. Victoria,

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she's seventy five. She's born in Fuka Haaka, Japan, in

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nineteen fifty. Their dad was in the Air Force. She

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went to seventeen different schools before she graduated from high school.

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Of course, she's most known for playing Pam Ewing on

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TV's Dallas. Some of her movies The Naked Ape, Earthquake,

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Vigilante Force. She retired from acting in two thousand and one,

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but she's still in joe business. She does a lot

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of producing. Plus she has a Victoria Princil skin Caroline

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that's really successful. She is twice divorced. Actor Mel Gibson.

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He's sixty nine. He's born in Peak Skill, New York,

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in nineteen fifty six. Now I'm serious. He didn't move

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to Australia until he was twelve. His first movie was

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Summer City Now it was an Australian drama. His second movie, now,

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that was Mad Max. Now during days, he probably more

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thought of like a movie maker and director than he

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is an actor. It's one oscars for Brave Heart and

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aksar Ridge. Biggest money making movie though, was The Passion

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of the Christ. Yeah, he financed the whole thing out

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of his own pocket, ended up making sixty million bucks.

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He spent thirty million on it.

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Now.

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He married his first wife for thirty one years and

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they had one daughter and six sons. After they divorced.

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He had a daughter from a good time and then

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he has a son with his current girlfriend.

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Len Me and I sing you a song. I will

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try not to sing out of ki Ya.

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Now, this will make you feel old. Fifty year old

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actress Danica mckeller. She was born in La Jolla, California,

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in nineteen seventy five. She is best known for playing

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Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years. She made a lot

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of Hallmark movies over the years. I mean they'd even

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spoofed her from making so many of them.

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Now.

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After the Wonder Rears, she went to UCLA and graduated

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with honors with a degree in mathematics. She's written six

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books on math. Danica as she had a son from

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her first husband. She's been married to her a second

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Esibden since twenty fourteen. Go back to Alaska nineteen forty three,

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Japan they invaded the Aleutian Islands. So the Battle of

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Attu was five from May eleventh to me a thirtieth

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now when the Japanese were driven out of it. It's

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the only battle during World War Two that was fought

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on US oil. Well, thank you for listening today. Don't

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businessman Conrad Hilton. Conrad he created the Hilton hotel chain.

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He died to day in nineteen seventy nine at ninety

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one years old. He said, successful people keep moving. They

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make mistakes, but they don't quit. You guys, have an

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awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.