Five random trivia for 16 February, to go along with this randomly chosen Veggie Tales tie!
1. In 600, Pope Gregory I decreed saying "God bless you" is the correct response to a sneeze.
2. In 1890, my grandfather Frank Albert Kleppinger was one day old.
3. In 1923, Howard Carter opened the inner burial chamber of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamen's tomb and found the famous sarcophagus.
4. In 1925, the National Horseshoe Pitchers Association of America was formed.
5. In 1937, DuPont Corporation patented nylon, developed by employee Wallace Carothers.
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