one million

[Nubian]

12,500

Potato chips are American's favorite snack food. They are devoured at a rate of 1.2 billion pounds a year.

[Nubian]

12,501

Potato chips were invented in Saratoga Springs in 1853 by chef George Crum. They were a mocking response to a patron who complained that his French fries were too thick.

[Nubian]

12,502

Refried beans aren't really what they seem. Although their name seems like a reasonable translation of Spanish frijoles refritos, the fact is that these beans aren't fried twice. In Spanish, refritos literally means "well-fried," not "re-fried."

[Nubian]

12,503

Research show that only 43% of homemade dinners served in the US include vegetables.

[Nubian]

12,504

Rice is the staple food of more than one-half of the world's population.

[Nubian]

12,505

Saffron, made from the dried stamens of cultivated crocus flowers, is the most expensive cooking spice.

[Nubian]

12,506

Since Hindus don't eat beef, the McDonald's in New Delhi makes its burgers with mutton.

[Nubian]

12,507

Sliced bread was introduced under the Wonder Bread label in 1930.

[Nubian]

12,508

Swiss Steak, Chop Suey, Russian Dressing, and a Hamburger all originated in the US.

[Nubian]

12,509

Tequila is made from the root of the blue agave cactus.

[Nubian]

12,510

The Agen plum which would become the basis of the US prune industry was first planted in California in 1856.

[Nubian]

12,511

The average child will eat 1,500 PB sandwiches by high school graduation.

[Nubian]

12,512

The California grape and wine industries were started by Count Agoston Haraszthy de Moksa, who planted Tokay, Zinfandel, and Shiras varieties from his native Hungary in Buena Vista in 1857.

[Nubian]

12,513

The color of a chile is no indication of its spiciness, but size usually is - the smaller the pepper, the hotter it is.

[Nubian]

12,514

The daughter of confectioner Leo Hirschfield is commemorated in the name of the sweet he invented: Although his daughter's real name was Clara, she went by the nickname Tootsie, and in her honor, her doting father named his chewy chocolate logs Tootsie Rolls.

[Nubian]

12,515

The difference between apple juice and apple cider is that the juice is pasteurized and the cider is not.

[Nubian]

12,516

The dye used to stamp the grade on meat is edible. It's made from grape skins.

[Nubian]

12,517

The English word "soup" comes from the Middle Ages word "sop," which means a slice of bread over which roast drippings were poured. The first archaeological evidence of soup being consumed dates back to 6000 B.C., with the main ingredient being Hippopotamus bones!

[Nubian]

12,518

The FDA allows an average of 30 or more insect fragments and one or more rodent hairs per 100 grams of peanut butter.

[Nubian]

12,519

The first ring donuts were produced in 1847 by a 15 year old baker's apprentice, Hanson Gregory, who knocked the soggy center out of a fried doughnut.

[Nubian]

12,520

The fungus called truffles can cost $800 to $1,500 per pound. They are sniffed out by female pigs, which detect a compound that is in the saliva of male pigs as well. The same chemical is found in the sweat of human males.

[Nubian]

12,521

The hamburger was invented in 1900 by Louis Lassen. He ground beef, broiled it, and served it between two pieces of toast.

[Nubian]

12,522

The hottest chile in the world is the habanero.

[Nubian]

12,523

The ice cream soda was invented in 1874 by Robert Green. He was serving a mixture of syrup, sweet cream and carbonated water at a celebration in Philadelphia. He ran out of cream and substituted ice cream.

[Nubian]

12,524

The largest item on any menu in the world is probably the roast camel, sometimes served at Bedouin wedding feasts. The camel is stuffed with a sheep's carcass, which is stuffed with chickens, which are stuffed with fish, which are stuffed with eggs.

[Nubian]

12,525

The Pillsbury Bake-off has been held every year since 1948.

[Nubian]

12,526

The pound cake got its name from the pound of butter it contained.

[Nubian]

12,527

The sandwich is named for the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-92), for whom sandwiches were made so that he could stay at the gambling table without interruptions for meals.

[Nubian]

12,528

The vintage date on a bottle of wine indicates the year the grapes were picked, not the year of bottling.

[Nubian]

12,529

The white part of an egg is the albumen

[Nubian]

12,530

The white potato originated in the Andes mountains and was probably brought to Britain by Sir Francis Drake about 1586.

[Nubian]

12,531

The world's first chocolate candy was produced in 1828 by Dutch chocolate-maker Conrad J. Van Houten. He pressed the fat from roasted cacao beans to produce cocoa butter, to which he added cocoa powder and sugar.

[Nubian]

12,532

The world's costliest coffee, at $130 a pound , is called Kopi Luwak. It is in the droppings of a type of marsupial that eats only the very best coffee beans. Plantation workers track them and scoop their precious poop.

[Nubian]

12,533

The world's deadliest mushroom is the Amanita phalloides, the death cap. The five different poisons contained by the mushroom cause diarrhea and vomiting within 6 to 12 hours of ingestion. This is followed by damage to the liver, kidneys, and central nervous system - and, in the majority of cases, coma and death.

[Nubian]

12,534

To determine the percentage of alcohol in a bottle of liquor divide the proof by two.

[Nubian]

12,535

Van Camp's Pork and Beans were a staple food for Union soldiers in the Civil War.

[Nubian]

12,536

Vanilla is the extract of fermented and dried pods of several species of orchids.

[Nubian]

12,537

When honey is swallowed, it enters the blood stream within a period of 20 minutes.

[Ozling]

12,535

[Nubian]

12,538

When Swiss cheese ferments, a bacterial action generates gas. As the gas is liberated, it bubbles through the cheese leaving holes. Cheese-makers call them "eyes."

[Ozling]

12,536

[Nubian]

12,541

according to counter

[Ozling]

12,537

[dadaist]

Originally posted by MilkToast
I've read all the posts in this thread :)

--12466--

Yep - and I'm counting on you to say something if I start duplicating factoids....

12543

[dadaist]

Originally posted by Nubian
12,492

Large doses of coffee can be lethal. Ten grams, or 100 cups over 4 hours, can kill the average human.

Is that from the caffeine or too many trips to the bathroom? ;)

12544

[IAKaraokeGirl]

12,544~

<-----is also relying on MilkToast, Keeper of the One Million Thread, to catch her double-postings, too, especially since he didn't take her on his trip with him. ;)

[BlondeCurlGirl]

12,545

Practically close enough to what I will end up paying in repairs for my car. :(

[dadaist]

12547

Uh, wouldn't that be time to buy a new car?
What happened?

[Cheyanne]

12548

I saw that BCG... that is an awful lot of money! Did you get a second opinion???

[BlondeCurlGirl]

12549

Not quite *that* high, but close to $2k. And big enough for me! Am shopping around for other options on repairs and parts.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

12,550~$2k *is* a lot.

[dadaist]

12551

While it is fairly widely known that there is a body in France that makes decisions on what words are and aren't allowed into the language, and what words are to be used in their place (e.g. 'e-mail' was recently banned), that language is not the only one with a decision making body. A reformation of writing and spelling for the German language was announced in 1996, codified into law by the Austrian, Swiss and German governments, and expected to take effect by 2005. The last such decisions about the language had been codified in 1902. Some people and organizations began using the new spellings right away, but there has been some resistance. Even as recently as this past May there have been counter-reform methods suggested.

[Cheyanne]

12552

Layman's terms **please**... :D

[dadaist]

12553

You post your esoteric trivia, I'll post mine.
Careful or I'll get into details, and NOT translate them! Muahahaha.

[strokeplayer]

12,554

Just diddling along.

[dadaist]

12555

[Cheyanne]

12556

LOL ok dadaist.... ;)

Originally posted by dadaist
12553

You post your esoteric trivia, I'll post mine.
Careful or I'll get into details, and NOT translate them! Muahahaha.

[dadaist]

12557

[Cheyanne]

12558

I am ready for the wee hours of the morning... hehehe. Found some more trivia. Am getting ready for trivial pursuit with Sugarsprinkles... :D

[dadaist]

12559 I might start without you :P

[dadaist]

12560

The following are taken from
"The Dot Eaters - Classic Video Game History"
at
http://www.emuunlim.com/doteaters/index.htm

[dadaist]

12561

In 1889, the year Nintendo was founded in Japan (remember they were known for making playing cards for a long long time, and got into video games at the end of the 70s/start of the 80s):

* The screw-top bottle is patented by Dan Rylands of Hope Glass Works, Yorkshire, England.
* A dock strike cripples the city of London.
* The punch-card information storage system is developed by H. Hollerith.

[dadaist]

12562

Also in 1889:

Fruit-peddler William Kemmler axes his lover Matilda Ziegler to death in Buffalo, NY., and is the first person sentenced to die in the newly designed electric chair. In the culmination of a viscious PR war between competing electricity delivery systems Direct Current championed by Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse's stronger and more lethal Alternating Current as to who would actually provide the killing voltages, Westinghouse loses and it is his AC that rips through Kemmler's body when he is "Westinghoused" the following year.

(Yet it's AC current that we use in North America daily - most of the rest of the world uses DC)

[dadaist]

12563

More from 1889:

* Danish inventor Vlademar Poulson invents magnetic wire recording.
* George Eastman markets the first flexible picture film roll.
* Vincent Van Gogh voluntarily admits himself into an insane asylum at Saint-Remy in France. He paints his "Garden at the Hospital", "Self-Portrait with a Bandaged Ear", and "Wheat Fields and Cyprus Trees" during this period. The next year he kills himself with a revolver shot to the chest.
* The Eiffel tower is officially inaugurated in Paris.
* The Moulin Rouge opens

[dadaist]

12564

Still from 1889:

Mary Sawyer Tyler dies. She was born in Sterling, Massachusetts, and at 10 received a pet lamb called Nethaniel which would follow her to the Red Stone schoolhouse occasionally. Visitor to the school John Roulstone was endeared by this and composed the famous poem "Mary Had a Little Lamb", which was later expanded on by Sarah J. Hale.

[dicksbro]

12,565

[dadaist]

12566

And all further events are also from 1889 until I say otherwise ;)
* May day, or Worker's Day, is first observed.
* Johannes Brahms' performance of "Hungarian Dance" is recorded on an Edison Phonograph cylinder.
(And the RIAA will come bust you if you have an MP3 - just kidding)
* Dishwashing machines are first sold in Chicago.
* "The Sneeze", a groundbreaking film experiment by Thomas Edison, is screened. It features sound effects from a syncronized phonograph player.
(The MPAA will do the same thing as the RIAA if you have a digital copy ;) ).
* The first Bell Telephone logo is introduced.
* 50,000 white settlers pour into Oklahoma during the land rush, with all 1.9 million acres available claimed by sundown.

[dadaist]

12567

Two white men in Missouri, newspaper editorial writer Chris L. Rutt and miller Charles G. Uncerwood, invent the first self-rising pancake mix. After seeing a show at the local vaudeville house with two comedians in blackface, Rutt take the name of the show stopping song sung by one as a household "mammy" for the trademark name of his creation, "Aunt Jemima".

[dadaist]

12568
* The Savoy hotel opens in London.
* Recording technology reaches marketable acceptance.
* The centennial of George Washington's inauguration becomes the first observed U.S. national holiday.
* William Gray from Hartford, CT obtains the patent for the first coin-operated telephone.

[dadaist]

12569

In 1958, William A. Higinbotham invents a very primitive 'video game' for the first time. It's a prototype Tennis game, and becomes a linchpin in lawsuits and countersuits involving Atari and Maganavox in the 1970s (between Pong, home Pong, and Magnavox's Odyssey).

See
http://www.emuunlim.com/doteaters/play1sta1.htm
for far more details than I can post here.

[dadaist]

12570

Other events and facts from 1958 start with this post:

* There are approximately 2550 computer systems in the United States.
* Approximately 47.1 million transistors are produced, compared to 397.4 million vacuum tubes.
* Under the U.S. Congressional 'Space Act', NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is formed, taking over the role of the National Advisory Comittee on Aeronautics.
(if you really want to irritate someone who's been involved in astronomy and the space sciences since the 50s, call NASA's precursor NACA [NA-KA] out loud. Drives them crazy. Apparently it was always pronounced En-A-See-A)
* Alaska is brought into America as the 49th state of the union.
* EMI releases the first sterophonic record album.

[dadaist]

12571

More factoids from 1958:

* Seymour Cray builds the first fully-transistorized super-computer, the CDC (Control Data Corporation) 1604.
* The first transatlantic jet flight is flown by PanAm, from New York City to Paris.
* The Canadian Broadcasting Company's microwave broadcasting system is the largest television network in the world.
* A federal investigation into the Twenty-One game show scandal begins.

The show and scandal were the subject of the 1994 movie Quiz Show (an excellent movie, IMHO). Lots of supervision of game shows were put into place, and there wasn't another scandal until the infamous Press Your Luck incident in 1984.

[dadaist]

12572

Other factoids from 1958

* The Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat the Edmonton Eskimos in the first CFL game, 29 to 21.
* ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency - the agency that spawns the ARPANet, which subsequently becomes the Internet) is one year old.
* Elvis Presley's burgeoning music career is interrupted as he joins the U.S. army at a Memphis, Tennessee induction center.
* IBM announces computer models 7070 and 7090, among the first to be fully transistorized.

You'll notice mention of 'fully transistorized' computers in this and the previous post. Remember that before the transistor was invented at Bell Labs all computers ran on vacuum tubes, and were HUGE.

[dadaist]

12573

And also in 1958:

* 111 people take part in the first U.S. domestic passenger jet trip, consisting of a National 707 flight from New York City to Miami.
* Johnny Hart's prehistoric comic strip "B.C." first sees print.
* Jack Tramiel moves his Commodore Portable Typewriter company from the Bronx to Toronto and renames it Commodore Business Machines. It is a typewriter sales and repair shop.
* Vladimir Nabokov's controversial book "Lolita" is published.
* The US Army launches the first American earth satellite Explorer I from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It contains Texas Instruments transistors, along with an experiement by James Van Allen which discovers Earth's radiation belt.
* Videotape is invented the previous year (1957) by Ampex in Sunnyvale, California.
* Arnold Palmer wins his first Masters tournament.
* Coach George "Punch" Imlach takes the helm of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
* The first public demonstration against nuclear weapons takes place in Aldermaston, England.

[dadaist]

12574

The next computer/video game milestone was in 1962, the year Spacewar is invented on a PDP-1 computer at MIT.

Again, see
http://www.emuunlim.com/doteaters/play1sta1.htm
for details.

[dadaist]

12575

Also in 1962:

* IBM U.S. reaches over $1 billion in computer sales, beating its other interests for the first time in the company's history.
* EDS (Electronic Data Systems) of Dallas Texas is founded by 32 year old Ross Perot with an initial outlay of $1000.
* The first U.S. Army troops move into Vietnam.
* The world teeters on the brink of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
* Hewlett-Packard, making electronic testing and measuring equipment, breaks into Fortune Magazine's top 500 US companies listing for the first time. It ranks #460.

[dadaist]

12576

Other details from 1962:

* First use of Agent Orange defoliant in Vietnam.
* Barbara Striesand signs her first recording contract, with Columbia Records.
* John Glenn becomes first American to orbit the Earth.
* Bell Telephone introduces radio paging in the U.S.
* First communications satellite Telstar I is launched, allowing transcontinental audio and video transmissions.

[dadaist]

12577

Continuing 1962:

* Bob Dylan's first album is released.
* Mariner 2 becomes the first interplanetary spacecraft launched from Earth, passing within 34,773 kilometers of the planet Venus and providing the first up-close view of this second planet from the Sun.
* Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatles drummer. The group releases its first record, called "Love Me Do".
* There are over 70 million TV sets installed in American homes. Over 90 percent of homes have at least one.
* Johnny Carson replaces Jack Parr as host of the "Tonight" show (and continues doing so for the next 30 years)

[dadaist]

12578

And finally, from 1962:

* At the age of 36, Marilyn Monroe is found lying on her bed naked, dead from an apparent self-inflicted overdose of barbiturates. Due to missing evidence and conflicting testimony, the exact nature of her death is surrounded in controversy, and leads to many questions including her relationship with the Kennedy family and Bobby Kennedy in particular.
* "West Side Story" wins 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Direction, and two Supporting Actor Oscars.
* The Milwaukee Braves' "Hammering" Hank Aaron hits his 500th home run.
* Stanley Kubrick's controversial film "Lolita" opens (four years after the book was published).
* The James Bond series starts with "Dr. No" (and has gone on for 40 years and 20 films, to date)
* 18 year-old bricklayer's apprentice Peter Fechter is shot while trying to escape East Berlin over the Berlin Wall, erected almost exactly one year before. At the base of the wall in no-man's-land, he lay bleeding to death and crying for help for a full 50 minutes before dying. He becomes the 50th victim of the wall.

[dadaist]

12579

A decade later, the arcade game and home video game, more or less as we know them now, were born.
Ralph Baer invents what becomes Magnavox's Odyssey home game system, and Nolan Bushnell uses Spacewar as the basis for "Computer Space" - the first standup arcade game. It was a dud. His second game, Pong, was a huge hit, and put Atari on the map. It also started a series of lawsuits between Atari and Magnavox.

Two legendary computer games also were created at this time: Hunt the Wumpus and Adventure.

[dadaist]

12580

But going back a bit, I found some details on the early days of Nintendo:

Donkey Kong - Nintendo 1889 is a very important year in videogame history. Yes, that's 1889. It is this year when Fusajiro Yamauchi founds Nintendo Koppai in Kyoto, Japan. The name Nintendo roughly translates to "Work hard, but in the end it is in Heaven's Hands", and the company's products are lovingly handcrafted Hanafunda playing cards made from the bark of mulberry trees. The cards are decorated by various symbols, which change depending on the region they're sold in. Hanafunda games constitute a popular pastime in Japan, and Yamauchi's cards are adopted by the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia, as their cards of choice when gambling. Their penchant for fresh cards every hand keep demand high. After expanding into Western style playing cards in 1907, the company becomes the largest playing card manufacturer in Japan. In 1933 they become Yamauchi Nintendo & Company, and then under the auspices of third president Hiroshi Yamauchi becomes Nintendo Playing Cards in 1951. Their real breakthrough comes in 1959 with a contract with Walt Disney Co. to produce cards featuring Disney cartoon characters, with the series going on to sell 600,000 packs that year. With another name change to Nintendo Co. Ltd., they move into electronics in 1963, producing light-beam gun games, toy robotic arms, and even love-testers.

[dadaist]

12581

For further details about how Nintendo got into video games (including Radarscope, a knock off of Galaxian, and Donkey Kong, their first success), see
http://www.emuunlim.com/doteaters/play2sta4.htm

[dadaist]

12582

I'm going to try to do all the 1971/72 stuff in one mega post, as I'm getting tired. :P

[dadaist]

12583

* Integrated Electronics (Intel) introduces the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004. Selling for around $200USD, the 1/6" x 1/8" chip has the approximate computing power of an entire 1946 era ENIAC computer.
* "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour" debuts on CBS as a mid-season replacement.
* The first digital watch is designed by Pulsar.
* Apollo 17 is the last manned mission to the moon for 30 years (longer than that!).
* "Duel" airs as a Saturday Night Movie on CBS. Telling the tale of harried driver Dennis Weaver's battle against an imposing tractor-trailer rig whose driver he never sees, it is director Steven Spielberg's first stint at long-form film-making (and is coming soon to DVD).
* The term 'Silicon Valley' is coined by Don Hoefler in a trade journal.
* The Coca-Cola company airs thier "Hilltop" TV ad, featuring a group of young people on a hillside in Italy singing the company's version of "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing", which becomes one of the most recognized corporate jingles of all time. 1971 also sees the "Crying Indian" anti-litter ad from environmental organization Keep America Beautiful, new slogans from McDonalds (You deserve a break today) and American Express (Don't leave home without it), and introduces Life cereal with the cry "Hey Mikey! He likes it!".
* CBS TV series "Hogan's Heroes" ends its six year run.
* Anik I, Canada's first telecommunications satellite, is launched. It can relay 12 channels simultaneously.
* IBM reaches over $2 billion in sales.
* Warner Bros. releases Stanley Kubrick's "Clockwork Orange", which earns an X rating in US theatres (these days it only carries an R rating, and is notable because it used the US version of the book, which only had 20 chapters. the full version has 21, and a very different ending).
* Kenback I, the first personal computer, is built by John Blankenbaker. Input is made by a series of switches, and output comes in the form of blinking lights above them.Priced at $750USD, only 40 are eventually sold.
* The Ford Pinto rolls off the assembly line and into automotive infamy when it is discovered later that its faulty design makes the fuel tank a veritable molotov cocktail in low-speed rear-end collisions. A recall is finally ordered in 1978.
* The first "memory disk", an 200K 8" flexible storage disk soon to be known as the "floppy", is invented by IBM engineer Alan Shugart. He later founds premiere media storage company Seagate (floppies eventually shrank to 3.5 inches with a capacity of 2.88 megabytes, but the 1.44 High Density format is the one still most widely used).
* "Electronic Labyrinth: THX-1138: 4EB", an award-winning student film short made at USC in 1966, is redone to feature length size as simply "THX 1138" by its creator...George Lucas.
* While attending high school, Steve Jobs meets and befriends fellow co-worker Steve Wozniak at their part-time job at Hewlett-Packard.
* The moon rover is deployed on the lunar surface during the Apollo 15 mission.
* Mid-season replacement series "All in the Family" premieres on CBS. It runs for nine seasons, hitting #1 in the ratings for five of them.
* ARPAnet designers choose "@" to separate user names from domain names as they refine email (electronic mail) delivery. The net now includes 50 universities.
* Novel "Cyborg", by former Air Force pilot and NASA PR agent Martin Caidin, is published by Arbor House Publishing. It and three other subsequently published books by Caidin later become the inspiration for ABC's hit TV series "The Six Million Dollar Man".
* Programming language C is created by Dennis Ritchie (as based on B, and the original language of choice for UNIX).
* Having been sold by Colonel Sanders seven years earlier for US$ 2 million, KFC Corporation is bought by Heublein Inc. for US$ 285 million.
* The first hand-held scientific calculator HP-30 is debuted by Hewlett-Packard Company for $350 USD (personally I always used TI calculators, as do a bunch of people in schools around here still :) ).
* Phase One of Walt Disney World, situated inside a total of 43 square miles of swamplands in central Florida, opens to the public. Built by 9000 workers at a cost of 400 million dollars, it is the largest private construction project in the modern world (Carl Hiaasen's Team Rodent is a hilarious and at time scary account at what goes on in Disney World).
* The compact disc is invented by Klass Compaan of Philips Research.
* Gene Wilder trips out a generation of kids as Willy Wonka in the movie version of Roald Dahl's classic children's book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".
* Steve Jobs begins classes at Reed College in Portland, Oregon as a Physics major. He drops out one semester later.
* Richard Adams' seminal fantasy tail "Watership Down" is released by London based book publisher Rex Collings.
* The first ever 8-bit processor, the 8008, is introduced by Intel (and now everybody's trying to move to 64-bit processors, though workstations have had them for years from SUN, Digital/Compaq and SGI).

[dadaist]

12584

I'm calling it quits here for the night.

All yours Cheyanne

[Cheyanne]

12585

LOL ok dadaist.....
The Cyborg novel sounds interesting... will have to find it.. :D

[Cheyanne]

12586

At last check, the governor of Arkansas makes $60,000 a year. His salary is the lowest of all 50 states. A dozen or so states pay their governors more than $100,000 year, generally the more populous states. California pays its governor $131,000. Illinois comes in second at $130,000 and change, with New York, a close third at $130,000 even.

[Cheyanne]

12587

Lyndon B. Johnson was the first president of the United States to wear contact lenses.

[Cheyanne]

12588

President Teddy Roosevelt died from an "infected tooth."

[Cheyanne]

12589

Money man Cornelius Vanderbilt was an insomniac and a believer in the occult. He was not able to fall asleep unless each leg of his bed was planted in a dished filled with salt. He felt this kept out the evil spirits. It also kept out the snails, ants, and anyone with high blood pressure.

[Cheyanne]

12590

Artist Andy Warhol became famous for his painting of Campbell's Soup cans. Before that - he made his living painting shoes for advertisements.

[Cheyanne]

12591

Flamenco dancer Jose Greco took out an insurance policy through Lloyd's of London against his pants splitting during a performance.

[Cheyanne]

12592

Television horse Mr. Ed was foaled in 1949 in El Monte, California. Mr. Ed's original name was Bamboo Harvester. Raised as a parade and show horse he was once owned by the president of the California Palomino Society. He died in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, on February 28, 1979, at 30 years old. Tahlequah was also the "home office" for "Late Night with David Letterman's Top Ten List" for several years.

[Cheyanne]

12593

President Theodore Roosevelt was the first to announce to the world that Maxwell House coffee is "Good to the last drop."

[Cheyanne]

12594

Lloyd Vernet Bridges III is the birth name of actor Beau Bridges. He was given the nickname "Beau" by his family, reportedly after Ashley Wilkes's son in the classic 1939 film "Gone With the Wind."

[Cheyanne]

12595

On April 14th, 1910, President Howard Taft began a sports tradition by throwing out the first baseball of the season. That happened at an American League game between Washington and Philadelphia. Washington won, 3-0.

[Cheyanne]

12596

Roosevelt was the most superstitious president—he traveled continually but never left on a Friday. He also would not sit at the same table that held thirteen other people.

[Cheyanne]

12597

George Washington was deathly afraid of being buried alive. After he died, he wanted to be laid out for three days just to make sure he was dead.

[Cheyanne]

12598

Richard Nixon's favorite drink was a dry martini.

[Cheyanne]

12599

Julius Caesar was self-conscious about his receding hairline.

[Cheyanne]

12600

James Buchanon is said to have had the neatest handwriting of all the Presidents.

[Cheyanne]

12601

Richard Nixon left instructions for "California, here I come" to be the last piece of music played (slowly and softly) were he to die in office.

[Cheyanne]

12602

The only president to be head of a labor union was Ronald Reagan.

[Cheyanne]

12603

When the Hoovers did not want to be overheard by White House guests, they spoke to each other in Chinese.

[Cheyanne]

12604

Robert Kennedy was killed in the Ambassador Hotel, the same hotel that housed Marilyn Monroe's first modeling agency.

[Cheyanne]

12605

Benjamin Franklin lived at 141 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA.

[Cheyanne]

12606

Theodore Roosevelt was the only U.S. president to deliver an inaugural address without using the word "I". Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower tied for second place, using "I" only once in their inaugural addresses.

[Cheyanne]

12607

A short time before Lincoln's assassination, he dreamed he was going to die, and he related his dream to the Senate.

[Cheyanne]

12608

When John Wilkes Booth leaped onto the stage after shooting the President, he tripped—on the American flag.

[Cheyanne]

12609

Paul Cezanne had a parrot who he taught to say, "Cezanne is a great painter."

[Cheyanne]

12610

George Washington had to borrow money so he could travel to his inauguration.

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12611

Lyndon Johnson died one mile from the house he was born in.

[Cheyanne]

12612

Grover Cleveland answered the White House phone, personally.

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12613

Calvin Coolidge was sworn into office by his own father.

[Cheyanne]

12614

Theodore Roosevelt was blind in his left eye.

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12615

Charlie Chaplin was so popular during the 1920s and 1930s, he received over 73,00 letters in just 2 days during a visit to London

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12616

Warren Harding was the first US president who could drive a car.

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12617

George Washington died the last hour of the last day of the last week of the last month of the last year of the 18th century.

[Cheyanne]

12618

JFK was the first president born in the 20th century.

[Cheyanne]

12619

Thomas Jefferson was once given a 1,235 pound hunk of cheese, giving us the term "the big cheese."

[Cheyanne]

12620

President McKinley was shot while shaking hands with spectators

[Cheyanne]

12621

Theodore Roosevelt's wife and mother both died on Feb. 14, 1884.

[Cheyanne]

12622

James Garfield often gave campaign speeches in German.

[Cheyanne]

12623

Leslie Lynch King, Jr. is the birth name of American President Gerald. R. Ford. Ford was the son of Leslie Lynch King and his wife Dorothy Ayer Gardner, who divorced soon after the birth of their only child. When his mother married Gerald R. Ford, Sr. in 1916, he adopted the name Gerald R. Ford, Jr.

[Cheyanne]

12624

Noah Webster was referred to as "the walking question mark" during his student days at Yale.

[Cheyanne]

12625

Ellen DeGeneres was the first stand-up comedian Johnny Carson ever asked to sit on "The Tonight Show" guest couch during a first appearance.

[Cheyanne]

12626

Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla became the first non-Italian pope in 455 years on October 17, 1978. He was inaugurated six days later in a mass at St. Peter's Square, becoming John Paul II.

[Cheyanne]

12627

Entertainers who worked in the pizza business before they became famous include Stephen Baldwin, who was a pizza parlor employee, Bill Murray, who was a pizza maker, and Jean-Claude Van Damme, who delivered pizzas. Many years back, Julia Roberts and Christie Brinkley both sold ice cream. Before she made it as a pop singer, Madonna sold doughnuts at Dunkin' Donuts. And in the burger arena, Jennifer Aniston was a waitress at a burger joint, Queen Latifah worked at Burger King, and Andie McDowell was employed by McDonald's.

[Cheyanne]

12628

Lyndon Johnson's First Family all had initials LBJ. Lyndon Baines Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson, Linda Bird Johnson and Lucy Baines Johnson. And his dog, Little Beagle Johnson.

**wonders if the little wife ever gave LBJ a l.b.j. (little blow job)** Sick, I know..... :D

[Cheyanne]

12629

Orson Welles is buried in an olive orchard on a ranch owned by his friend, matador Antonio Ordonez in Sevilla, Spain.

[Cheyanne]

12630

Jonathan Davids, lead singer for Korn, played in his high school bagpipe band.

[Cheyanne]

12631

John F. Kennedy's rocking chair was auctioned off for $442,000

[Cheyanne]

12632

David Atchison, as president pro tempore of the Senate in 1849, was U-S president for one day - Sunday, March 4th - pending the inauguration of President-elect Zachary Taylor on Monday, March 5th.

[Cheyanne]

12633

Shangri-la, the presidential hideaway near Thurmont, Maryland, was renamed Camp David in honor of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's father and grandson on May 22, 1953.

[Cheyanne]

12634

Actor Steve McQueen encouraged his karate teacher to pursue a career in acting. The teacher? Chuck Norris. McQueen is quoted as telling Norris, "If you can't do anything else' there's always acting."

[Cheyanne]

12635

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt ate three chocolate-covered garlic balls every morning. Her doctor suggested this to improve her memory.

[Cheyanne]

12636

Rap artist Sean "Puffy" Combs had his first job at age two when he modeled in an ad for Baskin-Robbins ice-cream shops.

[Cheyanne]

12637

One year, Elvis Presley paid 91% of his annual income to the IRS.

(bet that really sucked)

[Cheyanne]

12638

Steven Spielberg is Drew Barrymore's godfather. After seeing her nude in Playboy magazine, he sent her a blanket with a note telling her to cover herself up.

[Cheyanne]

12639

Mao Zedong, like many Chinese of his time, refused to brush his teeth. Instead, he rinsed his mouth with tea and chewed the leaves. Why brush? "Does a tiger brush his teeth?" argued Mao. As you can imagine, his teeth were green. Chairman Mao also loved to chain-smoke English cigarettes, when his doctor asked him to cut down, he explained that "smoking is also a form of deep-breathing exercise, don't you think?"

[Cheyanne]

12640

In 1977, the legendary Groucho Marx died three days after Elvis Presley died. Unfortunately, due to the fevered commotion caused by Presley's unanticipated death, the media paid little attention to the passing of this brilliant comic. Groucho, with his talented brothers (Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo), starred in irreverent films in the 1920's through 1940's, including "Duck Soup", "A Night at the Opera", "Love Happy," and "A Day at the Races." For five decades, Groucho had worked in the industry as an actor, comedian, TV game show host, and writer, and he won an Emmy in the early days of television for Outstanding Personality.

[Cheyanne]

12641

U.S. President Millard Fillmore's mother feared he may have been mentally retarded.

[Cheyanne]

12642

Alexander the Great was tutored by Aristotle

[Cheyanne]

12643

Galileo became totally blind just before his death. This is probably because of his constant gazing at the sun through his telescope.

[Cheyanne]

12644

Mark Twain first learned to ride a bicycle at age 55.

[Cheyanne]

12645

Ice Cube's real name is O'Shea Jackson.

[Cheyanne]

12646

During a stage revival of the musical The King and I, star Yul Brynner reportedly acted like a prima donna, making frustrating demands of the cast and crew. One incident that escalated the friction was the London Palladium's backstage pay phone. Brynner said the phone's ringing woke him during naps, so he requested a private phone be installed in his newly redecorated dressing room (which cost $65,000 to make-over). He then had the public phone disconnected. Reportedly, cast members retaliated by pouring glue on his dressing room doorknob.

[Cheyanne]

12647

I suppose someone should mention that Mae West never said "Come up and see me sometime." She said "Come on up sometime and see me." Cary Grant never said "Judy, Judy, Judy," and Cagney never said "You dirty rat..."

[Cheyanne]

12648

Mary Todd once dated both Abe Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. She chose Lincoln because he showed more promise, and she was right - he was good at everything but ducking.

[Cheyanne]

12649

Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains the only person, to date, to have graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit.

[Cheyanne]

12650

So far, nine presidents were elected in years divisible by 20. Six died before their term ended: William Henry Harrison (1840), Lincoln (1860), Garfield (1880), McKinley (1900), Harding (1920), and Kennedy (1960). Franklin D. Roosevelt was reelected in 1940 but died in 1945, after his 1944 reelection. So that's really seven out of nine. Maybe they should be running from, not for the office this year.

[Cheyanne]

12651

James Garfield, 20th President of the United States, lived in the White House with his mother.

[Cheyanne]

12652

Although John F. Kennedy was reportedly an accomplished yo-yo player, the yo-yo that has commanded the highest price at auction was autographed by President Nixon. This yo-yo was given to "King of Country Music" Roy Acuff onstage at the Grand Ole Opry in 1972, after Nixon introduced Acuff's act. Acuff was famous for yo-yoing on stage and encouraged the President to try. Luckily, the President's awkward performance was captured in a classic news wire photo. The yo-yo fetched $16,029.00 at Acuff's estate auction.

[Cheyanne]

12653

After telling the press he was an expert in hand gestures, President George Bush gave the "V-for-Victory" sign as he drove in his armored limousine past demonstrators in Canberra, Australia's capital in January 1992. In Australia, holding up two fingers to form a "V" has the same vulgar meaning as the middle-finger gesture in the United States. The Aussie demonstrators were enraged, and they signaled in the same manner back at the U.S. President. Pres. Bush later apologized for his faux pas.

[Cheyanne]

12654

Alexander Hamilton has been credited with writing George Washington's famous Farewell Address.

[Cheyanne]

12655

Johnny Carson was born in Corning, Iowa and grew up in Norfolk, Nebraska.

[Cheyanne]

12656

Prince Harry and Prince William are uncircumcised.

[Cheyanne]

12657

Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.

[Cheyanne]

12658

Theodore Roosevelt, a staunch conservationist, banned Christmas trees in his home, even when he lived in the White House. His children, however, smuggled them into their bedrooms.

[Cheyanne]

12659

The first Michelin Man costume (Bidenbum) was worn by none other than Col. Harlan Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame.

[Cheyanne]

12660

William Howard Taft is the only man ever to be President AND Chief Justice. The US Supreme Court appointment came second and was a job Taft enjoyed much more than the presidency.

[Cheyanne]

12661

W.C. Fields, the great 1930s movie comedian and famous misanthrope, died on Christmas, the holiday he despised. Of all the notable quotes that issued from this notorious curmudgeon, the most often quoted, said to be from his California tombstone, is "All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia."

[Cheyanne]

12662

Did you know that Goofy actually started life as 'Dippy Dawg,' a combination of both Goofy and Pluto.

[Cheyanne]

12663

In January 1950, actor John Wayne placed his hand prints in wet cement at Grumman's Chinese Theatre (now Mann's Chinese Theatre) in Hollywood. Sand used in the cement reportedly was brought from Iwo Jima, in tribute to his performance in the 1949 film "Sands of Iwo Jima". This event marked the 90th such ceremony in the "Forecourt of the Stars" at the famous theater.

[Cheyanne]

12664

Felix the Cat is the first cartoon character to ever have been made into a balloon for a parade

[Cheyanne]

12665

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams were all avid collectors and players of marbles. In their day, marbles were called "small bowls" and were as popular with adults as with children.

[Cheyanne]

12666

Gerald Ford was one of the members of the Warren Commission appointed to study the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

[Cheyanne]

12667

Bette Davis was born Ruth Elizabeth Davis in Lowell, Massachusetts, on April 5, 1908. She passed away from cancer October 6, 1989.

[Cheyanne]

12668

Bette Davis appeared in more than 100 films between 1931 and 1989. She made her first film called Way Back Home in 1931.

She was 5' 3 1/2" tall.

[Cheyanne]

12669

Lucille Ball was her classmate at John Murray Anderson's Dramatic School.

[Cheyanne]

12670

Joan Crawford and Davis had feuded for years & during the making of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" Bette had a Coca-Cola machine installed on the set due to Joan Crawford's affiliation with Pepsi. (Joan was the widow of Pepsi's CEO.) Joan got her revenge by putting weights in her pockets when Davis had to drag Crawford across the floor during certain scenes.

[Cheyanne]

12671

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

[Cheyanne]

12672

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.

[Cheyanne]

12673

Meg Ryan turned down plum lead parts in the films "Steel Magnolias," "Pretty Woman," and "Silence of the Lambs." A few years after her rejection of "Silence of the Lambs," which earned Jodie Foster a Best Actress Oscar, Ryan disclosed to Barbara Walters in a television interview that she had felt the role "was dangerous and a little ugly. I felt it was too dark - for me."

[Cheyanne]

12674

By age 16, Andre the Giant (who's real name is Andre Russimof) was 6'10' tall. He had a rare glandular disorder that made his body continue to grow. Even as he died, his body was still growing.

[Cheyanne]

12675

In her entire lifetime, Spain's Queen Isabella (1451-1504) bathed twice.

[Cheyanne]

12676

Before he pursued his acting career, Jack Nicholson worked as an office boy in MGM's cartoon department.

[Cheyanne]

12677

Marvin Hamlisch became the youngest pupil ever at the Julliard School of Music - at age 7.

[Cheyanne]

12678

When 7-year-old Shirley Temple’s life was insured with Lloyd’s, the contract stipulated that no benefits would be paid if the child film star met with death or injury while intoxicated.

[Cheyanne]

12679

Frank Sinatra was once quoted as saying rock 'n' roll was only played by 'cretinous goons'.

[Cheyanne]

12680

Grover Cleveland, the 24th president of the US, worked briefly as an executioner before becoming president. He hung at least two convicted criminals.

[Cheyanne]

12681

Winston Churchill, prime minister of England during World War II, superstitiously feared January 24 because he was certain it was destined to be the day of his death. Churchill's father had died on that date. Churchill did indeed die on January 24, 1965.

[Cheyanne]

12682

Hitler was claustrophobic. They had to install a mirror in an elevator just to keep him from being scared.

[Cheyanne]

12683

Desi Arnaz's (Ricky Ricardo from "I Love Lucy") father was mayor of Santiago, Cuba, and his mother the daughter of one of the founders of Bacardi Rum. His family went into exile after the coup that brought Fulgencio Batista to power in 1934. The family made its new home in Miami, Florida. Desi's best friend in high school - Al Capone, Jr.

[Cheyanne]

12684

More than 100 descendants of Johann Sebastian Bach have been cathedral organists.

[Cheyanne]

12685

Green Bay Packers backup quarterback, Matt Hasselbeck, has been struck by lightning twice in his life.

[Cheyanne]

12686

"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know I'm not blonde." -Dolly Parton

[Cheyanne]

12687

"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."—Erica Jong

[Cheyanne]

12688

The Taco Bell dog is a girl. Her name is Gidget.

[Cheyanne]

12689

Howard Hughes once made half a billion dollars in one day. In 1966, he received a bank draft for $546,549,171.00 in return for his 75% holdings in TWA.

[Cheyanne]

12690

William Shatner went to Balfour Collegiate (Regina, Saskatchewan) during his high school years.

[Cheyanne]

12691

President John Tyler had fifteen children.

[Cheyanne]

12692

Attila the Hun was a dwarf. Pepin the Short, Aesop, Gregory the Tours, Charles 3 of Naples, and the Pasha Hussein were all less than 3.5 feet tall.

[Cheyanne]

12693

President Grover Cleveland was a draft dodger. He hired someone to enter the service in his place, for which he was ridiculed by his political opponent, James G. Blaine. It was soon discovered, however, that Blaine had done the same thing himself.

[Cheyanne]

12694

Rita Moreno is the first and only entertainer to have received all 4 of America's top entertainment industry awards: the Oscar, the Emmy, the Tony and the Grammy.

[Cheyanne]

12695

James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing his entire middle finger on his right hand.

[Cheyanne]

12696

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger paid $772,500 for President John F. Kennedy's golf clubs at a 1996 auction.

[Cheyanne]

12697

The author of Roberts' Rules of Order, Col. Roberts of the U. S. Corps of Engineers, is also famous as the engineer in charge of designing the Seawall in Galveston, Texas. This Seawall was constructed after the famous hurricane of 1900 which hit Galveston, killing thousands.

[Cheyanne]

12698

Whoopi Goldberg was a mortuary cosmetologist and a bricklayer before becoming an actress.

[Cheyanne]

12699

Arnold Schwarzenegger began his transition from Austrian bodybuilder into an American film star when he made his screen debut in 1970 under the name "Arnold Strong" in "Hercules Goes Bananas."

[Cheyanne]

12700

During World War II, W.C. Fields kept US $50,000 in Germany 'in case the little bastard wins'

[Cheyanne]

12701

For a while Frederic Chopin, the composer and pianist, wore a beard on only one side of his face. 'It does not matter,' he explained. 'My audience sees only my right side.'

[Cheyanne]

12702

Clark Gable used to shower more than 4 times a day.

[Cheyanne]

12703

Charles Dickens kept the head of his bed aligned with the North Pole. He believed that the earth's magnetic field would pass longitudinal through his body and ensure him a good night rest.

[Cheyanne]

12704

Mae West was once dubbed 'The statue of Libido'.

[Cheyanne]

12705

Jimmy Carter is a speed reader (2000 wpm)

[Cheyanne]

12706

Adam Sandler and Bill Gates rank number 1 and 2 among the most popular role models with male college freshmen.

[Cheyanne]

12707

Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, learned Braille so that he could rest his eyes and still read. Huxley's eyes pained him when he read too much and his eyesight was failing. One of the benefits of learning Braille, Huxley said, was being able to read in the bed in the dark.

[Cheyanne]

12708

In 1996, Ringo Starr appeared in a Japanese advertisement for applesauce, which coincidentally is what his name means in Japanese.

[Cheyanne]

12709

Bob Dole is 10 years older than the Empire State Building.

[Cheyanne]

12710

Before coming to the White House, Nancy and Ronald Reagan were actors. During their earlier careers each was involved in a performance that foreshadowed their later lives. In 1939, the then Nancy Davis had one line in a high school play called, eerily enough, "First Lady." It was, "They ought to elect the First Lady and then let her husband be president." She and her future husband also appeared in an episode of the "General Electric TV Theater" called "A Turkey for the President".

[Cheyanne]

12711

John Lennon's middle name was Winston.

[Cheyanne]

12712

Before beginning his movie career, Keanu Reeves managed a pasta shop in Toronto, Canada.

[Cheyanne]

12713

Anthea Turner, Walt Disney, Tom Cruise, Susan Hampshire, Whoopi Goldberg, Thomas Edison, Henry Winkler, Cher, Brian Conley, and Leonardo DaVinci are, or were, dyslexic.

[Cheyanne]

12714

George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

[Cheyanne]

12715

The first president to appear on television was Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was seen by U.S. viewers at the opening of the New York World's Fair on April 30, 1939.

[Cheyanne]

12716

Mystery writer Agatha Christie acquired her extensive knowledge of poisons while working in a hospital dispensary during World War I.

[Cheyanne]

12717

Howard Hughes' original fortune came from his father's invention of an oil drill bit capable of boring through subterranean rock.

[Cheyanne]

12718

Recording star Vanilla Ice's real name is Robert Van Winkle.

[Cheyanne]

12719

Shirley Temple made $1 million by the age of 10.

[Cheyanne]

12720

King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie

[Cheyanne]

12721

Mickey Mouse was the first non-human to win an Oscar.

[Cheyanne]

12722

Napoleon was terrified of cats.

[Cheyanne]

12723

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger bought the first Hummer manufactured for civilian use in 1992. The vehicle weighed in at 6,300 lbs and was 7 feet wide.

[Cheyanne]

12724

The godfather of actress Winona Ryder was the late Dr. Timothy Leary, LSD guru of the 1960s. Winona’s father, Michael Horowitz, served at one time as Leary’s archivist and ran a bookstore called Flashback Books. Additionally, her parents were politically active intellectuals, and Beat poet Allen Ginsberg was a good family friend.

[Cheyanne]

12725

Before he catapulted to fame, Bob Dylan was paid $50 in 1960 for playing the harmonica on a Harry Belafonte album.

[Cheyanne]

12726

Richard M. Nixon, as a young naval officer in World War II, set up the only hamburger stand in the South Pacific. Nixon's Snack Shack served free burgers and Australian beer to flight crews.

[Cheyanne]

12727

On "forever-39" Jack Benny's 80th birthday, Frank Sinatra gave him two copies of the book "Life Begins at Forty."

[Cheyanne]

12728

Bill Cosby was the first black to win a best actor Emmy.

[Cheyanne]

12729

About the Brain

Nerve messages move at 240 mph.

[Cheyanne]

12730

Your brain is mostly water, 80 percent. Your blood actually is less fluid (or more solid) than your brain.

[Cheyanne]

12731

If you could harness the power used by your brain, you could power as a 10-watt light bulb.

[Cheyanne]

12732

You may have a true split personality. According to one school of thought, the left hemisphere of your brain may tend toward acceptance and positiveness while the right hemisphere is more concerned with negative and avoidance thoughts or behaviors.

[Cheyanne]

12733

The brain of an elephant is four times bigger than a human brain

[Cheyanne]

12734

The animal with the largest brain compared to the size of its body is an ant.

[Cheyanne]

12735

Human brains weigh about 44 to 50 ounces. The biggest brain in any class of apes is only about 16 ounces

[Cheyanne]

12736

Have you ever tried to sell something big to someone, who tells you, "I'll have to sleep on it." There is validity to this technique. A person can enhance their decision making power while sleeping. This is done through dreams. It seems that while dreaming we are practicing our thinking skills, and more specifically, reprocessing our thoughts and activities of the previous day. We are able to see issues more clearly the next day, and therefore make better decisions, because we have new power. We have let our brain process the issue overnight. This is an essential trait to survival.

[Cheyanne]

12737

Goofy Laws

When Peter the Great, who couldn't grow a respectable beard, was in power, any Russian who had a beard was required to pay a beard tax.

[Cheyanne]

12738

During the 1920's there was a law in Russia that all private automobiles (not ones used by the government) had to have a yellow stripe painted all the way around the whole body.

[Cheyanne]

12739

Don't get caught chewing gum in Singapore. For this horrible offense, you could be fined $6,250.00 or spend a year in jail. The reason might be that politicians were tired of cleaning gum off their shoes.

[Cheyanne]

12740

There are about 10,000 injuries related to fireworks every year in America.

[Cheyanne]

12741

There is an actual court case on record named: "The United States v. 350 Cartons of Canned Sardines." It has something to do with interstate commerce

[Cheyanne]

12742

In Kentucky it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket

[Cheyanne]

12743

In Illinois, prison inmates were offered free plastic surgery to change their faces. Of those who elected to become "new men" their rate of committing new crimes after release was less than average.

[Cheyanne]

12744

If you live in Kentucky, you must take a bath at least once per year. It's the law

[Cheyanne]

12745

In Massachusetts you can't legally use tomatoes in clam chowder

[Cheyanne]

12746

In New York City, it is illegal to greet anyone "by placing the end of his thumb against the tip of his nose, at the same time extending and wriggling the fingers of his hand.

[Cheyanne]

12747

There is a law against shooting rabbits from a New York City trolley car.

[Cheyanne]

12748

Having a bad day? Check these out....

On the night of July 5, 1991, while sleeping soundly with his wife, a police officer dreamed that someone was breaking into their house. Half waking up, he grabbed his gun from his night stand and promptly shot himself in the leg. His wife slept through it. He was reported in satisfactory condition at the local hospital.

[Cheyanne]

12749

As a promotional stunt at a baseball game in 1939 catcher Joe Sprinz tried to catch a baseball dropped from 1,200 feet in the air. He said he could see the ball all the way down, but somehow instead of catching it in his mitt, it hit him in the face, cracking his jaw in 12 places.