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Rhon is short for Rhonda. I'm married to a gorgeous man and we have two beautiful adult kids. I'm an animal lover, a nature lover, an art lover, a fun lover, but most of all a God lover.

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Til Of Frederick Mckinley Jones - An Orphaned Black American Who, In The 1930s When Racial Segregation Was The Norm, Invented The First Successful Automatic Refrigeration System For Trucks. This Lead To The Development Of Supermarkets And Better Combat-Zone Medical Supply.

Til That Drivers With More Expensive Cars Are Less Likely To Yield To Pedestrians. A Study Has Found That The Likelihood Of Yielding Goes Down By 3% For Every Extra $1,000 In Car Value.

Til That A 14th Century Moroccan Explorer Ibn Battuta Went As Far As Modern Indonesia, China, India, Russia, Central Asia, Balkans, Spain, Tanzania, West Africa And Maldives, And Was By Far The Most Well-Travelled Human Before The Modern Era. He Wrote An Account Of His Travels, Known As The Rihlah.

Til The Idea Of Black Holes Was First Proposed In 1783 By John Michell, Calling Them "Dark Stars" And Proposing A Method To Detect Them By Looking For Star Systems That Showed The Gravitational Effects Of Two Stars, But Only One Star Was Visible, Which Is Indeed How Scientists Look For Them Today

Til Carl Stalling Composed The Music For Many Early Disney And Classic Looney Tunes Cartoon Shorts, Averaging One Score A Week During His 22 Years At Warner Bros. The Studio's 50-Piece Orchestra Found Stalling's Dynamic Cartoon Music Far More Challenging Than The Film Scores They Normally Played.

Til That In The Last Year Of His Presidency, Teddy Roosevelt Rode A Horse 100 Miles In One Day In Order To Prove That His New Military Physical Standards (100 Miles In Three Days) Were Not Unreasonable

Til That The Developers Of The Racing Simulator Game Assetto Corsa Were Attempting To Find The Source Of What They Believed To Be A Bug With The In-Game Traction Control. In Reality, The "Bug" Was The Simulation Accurately Recreating A Real World Physics Problem They Were Unaware Of.

Til That Catherine Zeta-Jones Was Initially Offered The Lead Role In Chicago, But Turned It Down In Favor Of Playing Velma Just So She Could Sing "All That Jazz."

Til That A Smell Can Recall Emotional Memories Better Than Any Other Sense. A Sense Of Smell Is Also Linked To Overall Psychological Well-Being.

Til Children Have More Energy Than Endurance Athletes. They Have Fatigue-Resistant Muscles And They Recover Faster Than Adults. Much Of This Stems From Their Ability To Uptake And Distribute Oxygen, As Well As Synergize Energy Faster.

Til That The Oldest Known Domesticated Dog Remains Are Over 14,000 Years Old. The Dog Died Young And Is Unlikely To Have Been Much Use To Humans. Nevertheless, It Was Buried In An Elaborate Grave Alongside Two Humans.
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