Animation Fun Facts for June 14, 2012

1816- Writers Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and Mary Shelley were spending the summer at the Villa Deodati on Lake Geneva. This day among the revels, drinking, partner swapping and opium taking Byron suggested they all write a ghost story. They all tried but failed except for 19 year old Mary who invented the tale of a Swiss scientist who created an artificial man. She called it Frankenstein. She published the book in 1818. 2001- The Oxford English Dictionary admitted the slang expletive of Homer Simpson "DOH!" into its august pages.