And Stuff You Could Care Less About …
M&Ms were created for the US military so that soldiers could eat them as a snack because they wouldn’t melt in pockets or backpacks. So, it melts in your mouth, not in your backpack. Or something like that!
Coca-Cola (a beverage you probably used as a teenager to help kill the taste of bourbon) was first marketed as “the best cure for a hangover”. Early production, when processed, rendered cocaine.
The Pentagon has twice as many bathrooms as necessary because it was built under Virginia law, requiring separate toilets for blacks and whites.
Lawrence of Arabia, although the movie is 216 minutes long, has no women in speaking roles.
The ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
(Know anyone like that?)
Houseflies hum in the key of F.
(Shaun, do you teach your flies the correct key?)
Big Ben, the bell atop the tower at the House of Parliament, weighs thirteen tons!
A female praying mantis chews her partner’s head off during mating.
(Is that to stop the snoring before it starts?)
On average, we forget 80 per cent of what we learn on any given day.
(Which makes me way above average: because I forget almost all of it!)
Don’t believe me? Count ‘em. According to the animators you will see 6, 469,952 black spots when you see the movie 101 Dalmatians.
The NBC chimes utilize the three notes G, E and C and are the initials of the original owner of NBC which was General Electric Corporation.