Did you know?

Posted: November 10, 2011

A fun blog topic today: DID YOU KNOW THAT…….. ?

I will begin with a few random things I have learned in recent weeks. Please post some of your own newsy tidbits. Make it interesting. Make it fun.

(1) Did you know that North Carolina is emerging as the Southeast’s leader in solar energy?

(2) Did you know you can buy a birthday card at the US Post Office?

(3) Did you know that Ira David Wood has written a book?

(4) Did you know that there really are two ways to pronounce Camp Lejeune?

(5) Did you know that if I have another male dog he will be named Mortimer or Beauregard?

(6) Did you know that Brian Shrader is extremely adept at board games?

(7) Did you know that North Carolina was once called the Rip Van Winkle State because of its sleepy attitude?

(8) Did you know that there are at least eight NC communities that begin with the letter “Z?”

(9) Did you know that I was once hit by an airplane and lived to tell about it?

(10) Did you know that WRAL Morning News Reporter Kevin Holmes played tight end for his college football team?

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That my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was William Marshall, the Earl of Pembroke. The king's regent and called the greatest knight ever. I take my jousting seriously!

Wheelman
November 12, 2011 9:03 a.m.

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Did you know that the first confederate soldier killed in the civil war was from NC? Henry Lawson Wyatt was his name.

wdwbmw
November 11, 2011 5:23 p.m.

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Did you know my next door neighbor has two rabbits?

Pseudonym
November 11, 2011 4:30 p.m.

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I wonder if John Tesh ever paid up all the outstanding money he owed Sigma Chi at NCSU....

Gerbil Herder
November 11, 2011 9:59 a.m.

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(4) Did you know that there really are two ways to pronounce Camp Lejeune?

I heard a news story about that some time back. Everytime I read the words I think "Camp 'luh-jzurn'".

abbync2001
November 11, 2011 9:50 a.m.

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Love these! Thanks. I was John Tesh's roommate right after graduating from UNC where Rick Dees was my best friend. Dees was also an usher in my wedding.