Chocolate chip cookies: invented by Ruth Wakefield when she attempted to make chocolate drop cookies. She did not have the required chocolate so she broke up a candy bar and placed the chunks into the cookie mix. These chunks later morphed into what is now known as chocolate chip cookies.
The Slinky was invented by US Navy engineer Richard T. James after he accidentally knocked a torsion spring off his work table and observed its unique motion.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
Karaoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.
There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian
There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV
Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired"
Nobody knows who built the Taj Mahal. The names of the architects, masons, and designers that have come down to us have all proved to be latter-day inventions, and there is no evidence to indicate who the real creators were.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
That's all I've got so far... boredom has obviously set in. :p
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Quote du Jour: Two losts do not make a found...
Music du Jour: Extreme Music Library - Pure Roots (makes me laugh every time!)
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