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It appears today will be a slow day. Gray skies, rainy, and just chilly enough to let us know that snow is on the way soon. With that depressing thought in mind I’ll be lazy and post some little known facts you may not have heard before.
- The first soda can was developed in 1938 by the Continental Can Company for the ginger ale drink Clicquot in Massachusetts. RC Cola was the first soft drink company to nationally distribute soda in cans in 1954.
- In 1968, the Navy spent $400,00.00 in a study of Frisbees in wind tunnels, using cameras and computers. The results were never published.
- Dr. Joseph Bell inspired the character of Sherlock Holmes. In 1877 when Arthur Conan Doyle was studying to be a doctor, Bell was one of his professors. Dr. Bell had excellent deductive abilities when observing people.
- The state of Oklahoma comes from the Choctaw Indians words: “okla” meaning people and “humma” meaning red, so the state’s name literally means “red people”.
- To satisfy President Ronald Reagan more than 24 thousand pounds of jelly beans were ordered by the White House during his two terms in office.
- On July 11, 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr shot and killed the Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey.
- James Madison stood only 5’4′. He was also the lightest president weighing in at just a 100 pounds.
- On April 11,1912, pinstripes appeared on the uniforms of the Highlanders, who were the forerunners of the New York Yankees.
- In 1872 the Equal Rights Party nominated Victoria Claflin Woodhall for the Presidency. This was at a time when, nationwide, women were not allowed to vote.
- Aldous Huxley published his novel Brave New World in 1933. George Orwell followed in 1949 with “1984”of a society run by the Thought Police and Big Brother.
MORE ODDITIES SOON
Okay everyone, say goodbye to March. It certainly won’t be missed with it’s sucky weather patterns and frigid cold which seems to last forever. My really big and repeating bitch is the local snowplow driver who once again sent my mailbox flying into the neighbors yard in pieces. That’s happened twice this winter and once while I was standing nearby. The mailbox will need to be replaced again which is nothing new, we replaced it four times in the last seven years. Enough of my whining lets get to some hopefully interesting but odd facts.
- When you receive a kidney transplant, the doctors usually leave the original kidney inside of you.
- There are 80,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to arrange a deck of cards.
- Studies suggest that placebos work even when the subject knows they are taking a placebo.
- The darkest substance known is called “vantablack” and it absorbs 99.965% of all visible light.
- A dying someone once actually left a cat an inheritance of 12.5 million dollars.
- If you ate natural wasabi, you wouldn’t find it spicy. For spiciness it must be crushed.
- Nuclear fallout was once measured in “sunshine units”.
- Some blind humans are capable of echolocation.
- In the 1800’s, a man proclaimed himself emperor of the United States and issued his own currency.
- The Declaration of Independence was written on animal skin.
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FUNNY AND UNCONFIRMED
Reports suggest that during the cold war, the CIA planned to demoralize the soviet people by air dropping thousands of magnum-sized American condoms labeled “Small”. (I certainly hope this isn’t true but you never know with the CIA involved.)
Do you consider yourself a “Foodie”? I love a great variety of foods and have gone out of my way over the years to try almost everything once. There are a few things I absolutely love and on the backside of that a whole lot of things I absolutely hate. That doesn’t make me a foodie it makes me a nitpicker. I pick the nits I like, and I ignore the ones that I dislike. With that thought in mind I thought maybe a class on food trivia might be called for and give you a little information you probably haven’t heard before. I’ll just throw 15 facts at you, and you can deal with them as you please.
- Coca-Cola was first bottled in 1894 in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
- A 12-ounce cup of brewed coffee contains 200 mg of caffeine.
- The average ear of corn has 800 kernels.
- A medium-sized potato provides 45% of the recommended daily value of vitamin C for an adult.
- Nescafé was the first instant coffee. It was introduced in Europe in 1938.
- The Chinese restaurant item, chop suey, was invented in the United States.
- Fulton, Kentucky was once known as the “The Banana Capital of the World” because 70% of all imported bananas to the United States used to be shipped there.
- The United States military has created an “indestructible sandwich” that can stay fresh for up to three years.
- Black olives contain 10-30% more oil than green olives.
- The Aztecs considered avocados an aphrodisiac.
- The red and white colors of the Campbells Soup label came from the colors of the Cornell University football team, which Campbell’s executive Herberton Williams watched play in 1898.
- White and brown eggs contain the same nutrients in the same quantities.
- The Marquis de Sade loved chocolate so much that he had it sent to him in prison.
- Post Cereals developed the first cereal, Grape-Nuts, in 1897.
- The national drink of Iceland is a potato schnapps called “Black Death.”
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EAT UP!!!
