Post by Eve on Dec 19, 2015 0:33:59 GMT -5
[break]just watch it fall, watch it come down feel it as it goes,
[break]does it feel good
[break]to let go
The popular dice game known as Yahtzee was created by a Canadian couple who played it aboard their yacht — hence the name.
[break][break]Catherine the Great had private ice slides (the roller coasters of their day) built near her palace.
[break][break]When asked in 1993 why The Professor couldn't just fix the boat's hole, Bob Denver said, "He absolutely had no talent for boat building."
[break][break]While quarterbacks and running backs get most of the glory, NFL kickers almost always score more points than any other players on their teams.
[break][break]Johnny Carson's first guest when he took over The Tonight Show was legendary film comic Groucho Marx.
[break][break]Some cultures (especially those in sub-Saharan Africa) give their children names with meanings such as “ugly,” “disagreeable,” or “crippled,” to make them undesirable to demons.
[break][break]John F. Kennedy's assassination on November 22nd, 1963, overshadowed the deaths of two prominent authors: Aldous Huxley and C. S. Lewis.
[break][break]It took three people to compose “The Hokey Pokey." Roland Lawrence “Larry” LaPrise, Charles Macack, and Taft Baker wrote the tune in 1949 to entertain tired skiers at nightclubs in Sun Valley, Idaho.
[break][break]Some species of birds, like the robin, can only lay one egg a day. To ensure that all the eggs in the clutch hatch around the same time, the female will let the earlier eggs "cool" in the nest between layings so as to let the "fresher" eggs catch up.
[break][break]Five to ten times as many people were killed in the Peshtigo, WI, fire on October 8th, 1871, than in the famous Chicago fire on the same day.
[break][break]The first fielding gloves in baseball were flesh-colored so that fans wouldn't notice that the players were wearing them.
[break][break]The drug name Premarin is derived from the origin of the drug: PREgnant MARe urINe. Yes the urine of a pregnant horse!
[break][break]The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.
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[break][break]Big Ben doesn’t refer to a clock; it's actually the name for the bell inside that famous clock tower.
[break][break]In 1981, Deborah Ann Fountain (Miss New York) became the first Miss America pageant participant disqualified for "illegal use of padding" during the swimsuit competition.
[break][break]The orange stitching on the back pockets of Levi jeans is called "arcuate." Since the design has no function, it was painted on during World War II rationing.
[break][break]Dr. William Moulton Marston, the man who created Wonder Woman, also designed an early lie detector.
[break][break]According to MIT alum Edward Lorez, It is impossible to predict weather more than three weeks ahead of time with any degree of certainty. This is derived from his studies into chaos theory in 1972. His paper was titled Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil set off a Tornado in Texas?, from where the term "butterfly effect" evolved.
[break][break]In 2009, researchers at Newcastle University’s Centre for Life said that eating a bacon sandwich can help cure a hangover.
[break][break]Christmas classic “Do You Hear What I Hear?” was written as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
[break][break]The only other country in the world to celebrate the United States' birthday, July 4th, is Denmark.
[break][break]Woodrow Wilson's first name was Thomas. Woodrow was actually his middle name.
[break][break]Sanyo’s name means "three oceans" in Japanese. The company’s founder wanted to sell his wares across the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific oceans.
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