Cheer of the Day - 11

First things - The following information is checked and confirmed by reliable sources.

Did you know?

1. Did you know that the first mobile phone text message was sent in December 1992? You might know, but you might not, I didn’t know and I just found out.

2. 1911, Bobby Leach, a British-born circus star, became the first man to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive.
However, he ended up in hospital for 23 weeks for that stunt and fifteen years later, he died after slipping on a piece of orange peel in New Zealand…

3. Also in year 1911, was introduced Britain’s first tube (subway) escalator at Earls Court.

4. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, is credited with being the first person to introduce skiing to Switzerland.

5. Rap artist Sean P. Daddy Combs had his first job at age two, when he modeled in an ad for Baskin-Robbins ice-cream shops.

Joke:  

Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.

Riddle:

Each morning I appear
To lie at your feet,
All day I will follow
No matter how fast you run,
Yet I nearly perish
In the midday sun.

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Answer to previous riddle: A candle.