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Provided by the compucert land of Nod \land-uhv-NOD\, noun:
- A mythical land of sleep.
Land of Nod is a pun on the biblical place-name, the country to which Cain journeyed after slaying Abel. See Genesis, 4:16.
Facebook bingo - (noun) On Facebook, this term refers to a posted photo that features five or more people, all of whom have Facebook profiles and are accurately tagged.
At a dinner table of 10 people - "Let's get the waitress to take a picture of us! OMG, this is totally gonna be a Facebook bingo!"
Trivia What baseball legend struck out only 369 times in 6,821 at bats during his 13-season major league career?
- Yankee great Joe DiMaggio, who hit 361 home runs.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: Mormon church was founded by Joseph Smith in Fayette, New York (1830)
- Olympics: the first modern games opened in Athens (1896)
- North Pole: Robert Peary and his assistant, Matthew Henson, along with four Inuit men, became the first visitors to the site; their claim has been disputed (1909)
- Teflon: nonstick coating was accidentally invented by Roy J. Plunkett (1938)
- Raphael (1483-1520): Renaissance painter known for his Madonnas
- James Mill (1773-1836): philosopher, economist and historian, founder of philosophical radicalism
- Harold Edgerton (1903-1990): electrical engineer who developed the electronic flash and stroboscope
- André Previn (81): pianist/composer/conductor knighted in 1996 and won a presidential medal in 1998; also, musicians Gerry Mulligan (1927-1996) and Merle Haggard (73)
- Barry Levinson (68): film writer/director/producer, Rain Man
Vince Flynn (44): author of Mitch Rapp thrillers; plus, writers Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1671-1741) and Lowell Thomas (1892-1981)- Paul Rudd (41): actor, I Love You, Man; also, actors Ivan Dixon (1931-2008), Billy Dee Williams (73), Roy Thinnes (72), John Ratzenberger (63), Marilu Henner (58), Michael Rooker (55), Ari Meyers (41), Jason Hervey (38), Zach Braff (35) and Bret Harrison (28)
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