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.
