Question of the Day
Which fast food chain was founded first?
Fact of the Day
Vanilla beans are the product of the world's only fruit-producing orchid, the Vanilla planifolia.
Today in History
1944 Battle of Eniwetok Battle of Eniwetok: US forces take Enewetak Atoll at the cost of 37 Americans killed or missing and 94 wounded; Japanese losses are 800 dead and 23 prisoners
Today's Birthdays
1913 Rex Tucker
1745 Henry James Pye
1876 Théodore Akimenko [Fedir Yakymenko]