Todays post will be a little different from my normal trivia posts. Instead of a quiz I decided to just supply you with a few not-commonly-known trivia facts. I found them them to be fascinating and hope you will too.

• In 1939, Rudolph the Red-Nosed reindeer was created by an Montgomery Ward advertising employee as part of his job.

• Barbie’s (the doll) official real name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

• In 1884, P.T. Barnum once marched a herd of twenty-one elephants over the Brooklyn Bridge on it’s opening day to prove it was structurally sound.

• In 1929, Armenian born Sarkis Colombosian created and produced yogurt in Methuen, Massachusetts.

• In 1857, Joseph C. Gayetty invented modern day toilet paper.

• The original McDonalds drive-in opened by brothers Maurice and Richard McDonald in 1948 made 10 hamburger patties per pound.

• On July 28, 1933, the first singing telegram was delivered to Rudy Vallee on the occasion of his birthday.

• Henry Ford kept the final breath of Thomas Edison in a bottle. It remains in the Ford Museum in Greenfield Village, Michigan.

• The term “twofers” was created in 1892 to sell two-for-a-nickel cigars.

• In 1908 in Germany, Melitta Bentz, first invented the coffee filter.

My Favorite

In June 1946, French engineer-designer Louis Reard

invented and introduced the bikini for the first time.