Academy Award–winning Hollywood director, Ron Howard, gave his three daughters middle names inspired by where they were conceived.
Yup. His actress daughter Bryce Dallas was conceived in Dallas; and twins Paige Carlyle and Jocelyn Carlyle, in the Hotel Carlyle in New York City. Howard has noted that he and his wife named their only son Reed Cross after a London street because “Volvo isn’t a very good middle name.”
Pabst, was the first beer sold in a snap-top can.
Nope. It was Iron City beer, in 1962.
The Vatican have an observatory in the State of Arizona.
Yep, It does. In Arizona, on Mount Graham, northeast of Tucson, where Jesuit astronomers built the 70-inch Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope in collaboration with the Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona.
The second half of the phrase that most of us know in shortened form as “happy as a clam" is “. . . at high tide”.
Yep. —although some say “at high water.”
Maris Crane, a character on a popular, long-running TV sitcom was never seen—except when she had a pie thrown in her face.
Un-uh. It was Vera, the wife of Norm Peterson on
Cheers. She was regularly mentioned on the show, sometimes heard, and fleetingly seen only once—when waitress Diane Chambers accidentally threw a pie in her face. Vera was played by Bernadette Birkette, who is the offscreen wife of George Wendt/Norm Peterson.
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