Fast food is not a new idea. In ancient Rome there
were vendors who sold food ready to eat from street stalls.
Thirty-seven million Americans don't have health
coverage.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the
lowest point in Colorado.
In the original Star Wars movie, there are only two
named female characters.
The
Emperor Caligula once decided to go to war with the Roman God of the
sea, Poseidon, and ordered his soldiers to throw their spears into the
water at random. He also made his horse a senator.
Between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney collected
thirty-five Oscars.
The
approximate cost to make the movie, Titanic, was $200 million, while it
would cost about $123 million in today's dollars to build the ship
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads
enables it to see all four feet at all times.
The geographical center of North America is Rugby
North Dakota.
The coldest temperature ever recorded was -70 deg
Celsius, in Siberia.
Native
American Indians used to name their children after the first thing they
saw as they left their tepees subsequent to the birth. Hence such
strange names as Sitting Bull and Running Water.
Food is tasteless to man until it mixes with saliva.
The milk from a yak is pink.
A
Flemish artist is responsible for one of the smallest paintings in
history. It is a picture of a miller and his mill, and it was painted
on to a grain of corn.
The first city in modern history to reach 1 million
people was London in 1811.
Captain Kangaroo won five Emmy awards.
An office chair with wheels travels 8 miles a year.
During echolocation (communication), dolphins can
emit up to 700 clicking sounds per second.
John Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world,
had a payphone in his mansion.
On
7 January 1904 the distress call 'CQD' was introduced. 'CQ' stood for
'Seek You' and 'D' for 'Danger'. This lasted only until 1906 when it
was replaced with 'SOS'.
Betsy Ross, Jackie Onassis, JFK, and Daniel Boone
have all appeared on Pez dispensers.
26
(easily visible, there may be more) states are listed across the top of
the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the old US $5 bill.
Hot dogs are the most widely consumed form of sausage
in the USA.
A salt enema used to be given to children to rid them
of threadworms.
Modern
breathalyzers work on a clever electrochemical principle. The subject's
breath is passed over a platinum electrode, which causes the alcohol to
bind with oxygen, forming acetic acid. In the process it loses two
electrons, a process that sets up a current in a wire connected to the
electrode. The higher the concentration of alcohol in the breath, the
greater the electrical current, which can be read by a simple meter to
indicate intoxication levels.
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