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• Although you’ve heard that “Money is the root of all evil,” that is a misquote. The correct quote is “The LOVE of money is the root of all kinds of evil,” written by the Apostle Paul in a letter to his companion Timothy. • We might call it “paper money,” but it’s not that at all. Currency is made from a blend of 25% linen and 75% cotton. Our banknotes used to be 30% larger. In 1929, the Federal Reserve reduced the size in order to lower printing costs, so that all bills now measure 6.14 x 2.61 inches. Each is 0.0043 inch thick and weighs about 1 gram. It would take 454 bills to equal one pound of currency. Want to stack your paper money a mile high? You would need upwards of 14.5 million bills. • How much does $1 million weigh? If you’re using one-dollar bills, the weight is 2,040.8 lbs. Use $100 bills and the pile will tip the scale at only 20.4 lbs. • According to the Federal Reserve System, the life expectancy of a one-dollar bill is 6.6 years. A five-dollar bill is in circulation for 4.7 years, a tendollar bill about 5.3 years, with the average twenty-dollar bill in use for 7.8 years. Because larger denominations such as the $100 bill pass between users less frequently, their lifespan is longer. The $100 bill endures nearly 23 years. • The Federal Reserve also tells us that there are more U.S. $20 bills in circulation than there are people on Earth, about 9.5 billion bills. Nearly half the money in circulation is $1 bills. • Paper money is pretty strong stuff. It would take 4,000 double folds, forwards and backwards, to tear a bill. • Even though the $5 bill has been redesigned several times, it has always featured the face of 16th President Abraham Lincoln since its inception in 1914. ...continued

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• We’re used to seeing the face of seventh President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, but he’s actually appeared on 18 different pieces of currency. Jackson was first on the $10 bill, from 1914 until 1929, when founding father and former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton replaced him. Jackson then moved to the $20, replacing President Grover Cleveland, who moved to the $1,000 bill. • We can only remember the face of George Washington on the front of the one-dollar bill, but it wasn’t always so. When the bill was introduced in 1862, it featured the Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase. He was replaced by Washington in 1869. There was also a $10,000 bill, with Chase’s face, but the Treasury discontinued printing it in 1945, along with the $5,000 bill featuring fourth President James Madison, and the $500 and $1,000 bills. The bills remained in circulation until 1969.

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• The first rover was carried aboard Apollo 15, landing on the Moon on July 30, 1971, two years after Neil Armstrong’s historic walk. Astronauts David Tidbits invites you to climb aboard the Moon Rover and Scott and James Irwin spent more than 18 hours on learn the facts about this historic vehicle. the Moon, traveling 17.25 miles in 3 hours and 2 • When the astronauts from three Apollo moon-landing minutes of driving time as they collected 170 lbs. or missions reported how tiring and disorienting it was to lunar dust and rocks. walk around the moon’s cratered terrain, while gathering hundreds of pounds of moon rocks, NASA engi- • LRV-2 was launched with Apollo 16 on April, 16, 1972, landing on the moon four days later. Astroneers devised a solution. The Lunar Roving Vehicle, nauts John Young and Charles Duke gathered up 209 LRV for short, and nicknamed the Moon Buggy, was lbs. of samples during three excursions in the rover, contracted to Boeing for development. NASA engitraveling 16.5 miles in 3 hours and 26 minutes of neers had to design a lightweight buggy that could fold driving time. They ventured 2.8 miles from the Luup to a size that could fit inside the lunar module. The nar Module on their outings. result was a vehicle about the size of a Lincoln Continental, but folded up like a lawn chair to less than the • LRV-3, the final buggy, was aboard Apollo 17 when size of a Volkswagen Beetle. it was launched on December 7, 1972, the last mission to send humans to the Moon. Eugene Cernan • The vehicle was developed in just 17 months, with an and Harrison Schmitt covered a total distance of original cost estimate of $19 million. The LRV ended 22.3 miles in 4 hours and 26 minutes of driving time. up costing double that. Four were built, one each for The mission brought back 243 lbs. of lunar samples Apollo 15, 16, and 17, and one for spare parts. when it splashed down on December 19. • To keep it lightweight, the buggy was constructed primarily of aluminum. It was powered by two 36-volt • All three of NASA’s lunar rovers were left behind on the Moon near the landing sites of the Lunar Modsilver zinc batteries. Each of its eight wheels, made ules. The buggies’ final mission was to film the Modof woven piano wires, was independently powered by ule and the crew as they blasted off into space for a quarter-horsepower electric motor. At 10 feet long their return trip to Earth. and 6 feet wide, its final weight was 462 lbs. on Earth, which was 77 lbs. on the Moon. Ground clearance was • For all the success of the LRV’s, they weren’t the 14 inches. first rovers to successfully land on the lunar surface. The Soviets had rocketed the Lunokhod I aboard • The rover’s maximum load was 1,080 lbs., which inan unmanned spacecraft, Luna cluded two astronauts and their 17, in November, 1970, and for equipment, along with any lunar 10 months, the vehicle, driven by samples they collected. Although it remote-control operators in the was designed for a maximum speed Soviet Union, roamed the surface of 8 mph, on the last mission, Apollo for 6 miles transmitting data and 17, Eugene Cernan recorded a speed imagery back to Earth. of 11.2 mph.

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On Jan. 16, 1919, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, prohibiting the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes," is ratified and becomes law. Large-scale distribution of alcoholic beverages and organized crime flourished anyway. • On Jan. 11, 1937, nearly two weeks into a sit-down • On Jan. 14, 1639, in Hartford, Connecticut, the first strike by General Motors auto workers at the Fisher constitution in the American colonies, the "Funda- Body Plant in Flint, Michigan, a riot breaks out when mental Orders," is adopted. The Fundamental Orders police try to prevent food deliveries to the strikers from declared that "the foundation of authority is in the free supporters on the outside. The melee was later nickconsent of the people." named the "Battle of the Running Bulls." • On Jan. 13, 1842, a British army doctor reaches the • On Jan. 10, 1946, the first General Assembly of the British sentry post at Jalalabad, Afghanistan, the lone United Nations, comprising 51 nations, convenes in survivor of a 16,000-strong Anglo-Indian expedition- London. Then, on Jan. 24, the General Assembly adary force that was slaughtered in its retreat from Kabul. opted its first resolution, a measure calling for the He told of a terrible massacre in which the Afghans peaceful uses of atomic energy and the elimination of killed 4,500 soldiers and 12,000 camp followers. atomic and other weapons of mass destruction. • On Jan. 14, 1875, Nobel Prize-winning physician Al- • On Jan. 12, 1981, prime-time ABC soap opera "Dynasty" bert Schweitzer is born in Upper-Alsace, Germany. debuts. The show's elaborately melodramatic plot lines Schweitzer's philosophy revolved around what he resembled those of the daytime soap operas (kidnappings, called "reverence for life," the idea that all life must amnesia, characters returning from the dead), and its style be respected and loved. fit perfectly with the over-the-top excesses of the 1980s.

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Happy New Year from Tidbits! The first day of the new year sees many locations holding a chilling event on Polar Bear Plunge Day. Here are the cold hard facts! • The tradition of plunging into a body of water during low temperature days has its origins in Scandinavia more than 100 years ago. After sitting in the heat of a sauna, these folks would cool off quickly by dipping in icy waters, believing that alternating cold-water dips with sauna or steam baths contributed to a healthy immune system. They also enjoyed ice-hole swimming – cutting a hole in frozen waters and dropping through the hole for a dip. • Immigrants brought the custom to the U.S., and in 1902, a swim club known as the “L” Street Brownies was established in Boston, Massachusetts. The group held their first New Year polar bear plunge in 1904, leaping into nearby Dorchester Bay, one of three small bays in southern Boston Harbor. The club has held the plunge every year since then. Many die-hard swimmers do it every day! Cost of membership in the club is $1.00. • At the 2012 Boston plunge, Dorchester Bay had a water temperature of 37 degrees F. • The “L” Street Brownies were founded before New York’s Coney Island Polar Bear Club (established in 1903), but because the Brownies’ first documented swim didn’t occur until 1904, the Coney Island swimmers claim the honor of being the oldest winter bathing organization in the United States. The Coney group was founded by the nation’s earliest fitness and health advocate, Bernard McFadden, who promoted a regimen of exercise, bodybuilding, and healthy diet for long life. In fact, McFadden assured his followers that by adhering to his routine, he would live to be 150. He didn’t make it to 150, but did ...cont'd live to be 87, passing away in 1955.

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• The Coney Island Polar Bears can be found swimming in the Atlantic Ocean at Coney Island every Sunday from October through April. On New Year’s Day, the club invites non-members to participate in the annual plunge. • Coney’s Polar Bears might be the oldest club, but their plunge is far from the largest. The plunge at Maryland’s Sandy Point State Park, the Plungapalooza, is the largest, and raises funds for the Special Olympics. In 2007, this event had 7,400 swimmers, raising $2.2 million. The following year, 12,000 participated in the plunge. • What’s the best way to take the plunge? Some ease their way into the icy waters, while others sprint right in and sprint right back out. Experienced purists go for full submersion and even swim for a few minutes. In the words of one swimmer, “It’s quite pleasant once you lose feeling in your limbs.” • The plunge isn’t for everyone. Cold air or cold water can bring about an asthma attack for those with that ailment. People with high blood pressure might experience a spike in their numbers as their body responds to the cold, and for those with a heart condition, an irregular heartbeat or even a heart attack could occur. But for others, there are several benefits, such as the release of the body’s painkilling hormones and chemicals that can combat depression. • With many Polar Bear Plunges held as fundraisers for charitable organizations, clever catchphrases have arisen, such as “Be bold. Get cold.” The community of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories holds its “Freezin’ for a Reason” fundraiser in the chilly waters of Great Slave Lake, 250 miles south of the Arctic Circle.

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