Todays post will contain a few little known facts about everything. There’s no theme just twenty odd bits of information you might find interesting. Lets get started . . .

• Cable television was introduced in Pennsylvania in 1948.

• The first drive-in movie theater was constructed in Camden, NJ in 1933.

• Talcum powder kills ants.

• A cats sense of smell is fourteen times more acute than that of a human.

• William Henry Harrison had the shortest term in office as President. He passed away just thirty-one days after his inauguration.

• The first umbrella factory was established in Baltimore, Maryland in 1928.

• Musicians Billy Joel, singer Wayne Newton, and actor Cary Grant were all high school dropouts

• The jackfruit which is indigenous to India, can weigh as much as a hundred pounds.

• The native name for Greenland is Kalaallit.

• Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, rises to the height of 19,431 feet.

• FDR had the first presidential airplane but it wasn’t called Air Force One until JFK was elected.

• To convert degrees Fahrenheit to Celsius, subtract 32 degrees and divide by 1.8.

• The minimum wage instituted in 1938 in the United States was $.25 an hour.

• Peter Merholtz is credited with coming up with the term “blog”.

• Pu Yi was two years old when he became the Emperor of China in 1908. He abdicated the throne 6 years later.

• In 1780 Pennsylvania became the first state to abolish slavery.

• The first professional basketball game was held in 1896 in Trenton, NJ.

• Coco Chanel named her perfume Chanel #5 because five was her lucky number.

• Pornography is the Greek word for “the writings of prostitutes.”

• Most people dream for two hours in an eight hour night of sleep.

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