Didja Know?

Submitted By: Pat Bergrin (Waterford)

1. The Buffalo Bills of the NFL broke the league’s gender barrier when they promoted Kathryn Smith to be their special teams quality control coach. She is the first female full-time assistant in the League.

2. Pope Francis had an historic meeting in Cuba on Feb.12, 2015 with the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. This is the first meeting between a pope and the Russian patriarch in nearly 1,000 years.

3. Staff members and friends of the Palm Beach Zoo said a tearful goodbye to one of the zoo’s oldest animals, Taco, the parrot. Known for her plume of green, blue and red feathers, she had a friendly disposition and would greet passersby with, “Hi, Taco!”.

4. There are new signs when entering Boynton from the south and the north on Federal Highway. Blue in color with sailfish, waves and landscaping surrounding them, at a cost of $240,000, the signs read, Welcome to Boynton Beach.

5. For the 17th year in a row, Atlanta had the bus-iest airport in the world. More than 90 million passengers passed through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. A total of 6.7 billion passengers passed through airports worldwide.

6. Police in St. Louis arrested a man for trespass-ing at the Budweiser Brewery, and discovered that his name was Bud Weisser. Weisser, 19, smashed up his car and vaulted over a fence onto brewery grounds and refused to leave when guards told him to.

7. Conventional wisdom holds that men and women’s brains are “wired” differently. A detailed new study, however, has found that most brains have a mix of structures associated with traditional male and female traits and behavior, making a person an individual mosaic of gender-related characteristics.

8. It was a bad week for some 30 incoming cadets who suffered injuries — including concussions, split lips, and broken limbs-at West Point’s annual morale-building pillow fight for freshmen. The cadets had stuffed their pillows with helmets and other hard objects.

9. More college students in the U.S. are giving up cigarettes, but more are smoking marijuana instead. Anti-smoking campaigns have apparently convinced undergrads that smoking is dangerous but the legalization of marijuana in some states may have sent the message that smoking weed is safe.

10. A cleaning crew at an Italian museum mis-took an exhibit for garbage and threw it away. The piece was restored after its contents-empty champagne bottles, cigarette butts and confetti-were found in a recycling bin.