The namesake for
Hershey's Kisses comes from the machine that makes them "kissing" the
conveyor belt.
In Los Angeles in
1994, cars off the
assembly line actually output cleaner air than they took in due to the
carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere and the ease at which cars
burned it.
If a frog's eyes are
closed, it is probably swallowing, as it cann't do so otherwise.
A clock that loses a
half an hour per day will show
the correct time again in 24 days.
Gerald Ford was both
Vice-President and President of
the U.S., but elected to neither position.
The most popular
beverage in America is still milk.
Wall Street was
named for a barrier to keep "hostile"
Indians at bay in New York City.
The
kids
song 'Ring-a(round
the)-Ring-a-Roses', believe it or not, refers to the plague, which
claimed approximately 30 million lives in the 1300s.
W.C. Fields
horded $50,000 in
Germany during the second world war, 'in case the little bastard wins'.
The desert rat can
copulate as many as 120 times in one hour.
A normal human will
blink their eyes over 10 million times per year.
In the mega-hit
film, "Pulp Fiction" every clock displays "4:20" (the universal time to
smoke marijuana).
The brain of an
ostrich is smaller than its eye.
The biggest human
muscle is the buttock; the strongest, the tongue; the thickest, the
lower
back.
One in four people
bitten by canines are
bitten by German Shepherds.
The "denim"
in denim jeans originates from 'de Nimes'. The town of Nimes, France
was where it was first produced.
On average, a
creative child utilizes 730 crayolas by the time they turn
ten.
Dermochelys
coriacea, also known as the
leatherback turtle of the sea, grows up to 9 feet, weighing
up to
a ton. They can swim and dive to incredible distances.
Coca-Cola's brand
name comes from the
leaves of the coca plant and the nuts of the kola employed for
distinctive flavoring. The beverage's maker, John Pemberton, switched
the 'K' of
kola to 'C' for marketing purposes.
Using only the top
row of the standard keyboard, the word TYPEWRITER, is the longest that
can be typed.
Negative 40 degrees
Fahrenheit is the same as negative 40 Celsius.
Cherrapunji, India
is the wettest place on the planet;go
there during monsoon season, but bring an umbrella. . . and a boat.
The
idea for the frisbee originated with the Frisbie Baking Company
(1871-1958) of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Upon selling pies to
New
England colleges, the kids took to using the empty pie tins for
throwing
and catching. A light bulb went on in Walter Fredrick Morrison head,
and the "Pluto Platter" frisbee toy was soon born.
There is far
more space between the atoms in the human body than there are atoms
themselves. If such space was removed, a human could pass through the
eye of a needle.
The
infamous weatherman Willard Scott was the original Ronald McDonald. The
original clown outfit consisted of hamburger bun shoes, a cup on the
nose, and a hat resembling a hamburger meal. That was in 1960, before
the traditional clown outfit was adopted instead.
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