On a cold day during a 1901 baseball game in New
York, concessionaire Harry Stevens struggled to sell cold ice cream and
soda to freezing customers. Having no luck, he sent his salesperson out
to buy dachshund sausages and rolls. Vendors sold them by yelling out
"They're red hot! Get your dachshund suasages while they're red hot!"
Sports cartoonist Tad Dorgan, who sat idly by searching for ideas, drew
a cartoon of barking dachshund sausages hunkering warmly in their buns.
He couldn't spell "dachshund", so he substituted "hot dog" instead. The
cartoon was a sensational hit, and the term "hot dog" was born.
It is virtually impossible to spot a
really tall old
person, and no one knows why.
Military medals are always worn on the left.
The average number of people airborne over the US any
given hour: 61,000.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom
Sawyer.
When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... even
your heart
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear
until they are 2-6 years old.
The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years
waiting in lines.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire
State Building
An Ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
# In most television commercials advertising milk, a
mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the
milk.
Most
hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who
give birth.They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
There are only four words in the English language
which end in
"dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
A
pound of sugar weighs more at the bottom of a water tower than at the
top. A year at the bottom of the tower is also longer than a year at
the top. Thank you Einstein!
The first zoo in America was in Philadelphia
In
Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela, it is customary for the streets
to be blocked off on Christmas eve so that the people can rollerskate
to church
The human body contains about sixthy thousand miles
of blood vessels
The Beatles song 'A day in the life' ends with a note
sustained for 40 seconds
In
most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch or clock is 10:10
because it resembles a smiley face and doesn't hide the company's logo
or trademark.
Dolphins don't have ears. They "hear" through a
special bone in their lower jaw.
Oranges cease to ripen after picking.
In
Quebec, Canada, an old law states that margarine must be a different
color than butter. This law is the result of Quebec dairy lobbyists'
pressure to ''protect'' their dairy business. They claimed margarine
was beginning to resemble butter, as to be mistaken for real butter.
Make margarine unattractive, and consumers would stick to butter. The
Quebec government caved in, and tried to impose a dark
vermilion-coloured margarine, which was disgusting. The colour,
finally, at the other extreme, is a pallid almost-white-colourless
margarine.
The letter "a" doesn't appear in the spelling of
numbers until the number 1000.
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