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- The custom of giving teachers apples originated when
public school teachers were paid with whatever the community
could afford, often in food or goods.
* - The FDA allows an average of 30 or more insect fragments
and one or more rodent hairs per 100 grams of peanut butter.
* - The first US consumer product sold in the Soviet Union
was Pepsi-Cola
* - The Popsicle was invented by 11-year-old Frank Epperson
in 1905. He left a container of soda and a stirrer outside
overnight, and in the morning discovered them frozen
together.
* - The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas
during World War II as currency.
* - The world's record for keeping a Lifesaver in the mouth
with the hole intact is 7 hours and 10 minutes.
* - Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking
vessels.
* - 26% of all McDonald's employees in Ontario, Canada admit
to putting some type of bodily fluid in McDonald's food.
* - 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
* - 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is a
meaningless existential hell.
* - 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
* - 60% of electrocutions occur while talking on the phone
during a thunderstorm.
* - 92% of pay-per-view TV programs contain violence.
* - A car is stolen every 30 seconds in the United States.
* - A group of crows is called a murder.
* - A Viking tribe once raided England because they had run
out of beer.
* - Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham University.
* - Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of
Alphabet Spaghetti especially for the German market that
consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
* - Dr. Seuss coined the word nerd in his 1950 book "If
I Ran The Zoo."
* - For $33.80, you can buy a corpse scent kit. These are
technically used for training search and rescue dogs, but it
is a product with interesting possibilities.
* - Happy Birthday To You is the most often sung song in
America
* - If you add together all the numbers on a roulette wheel
(1 to 36), the total is the number 666.
* - In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear
that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.
* - In the summer of 1959, the United States Postal Service
experimented with the delivery of letters by guided missile.
* - It took more than 10 million bricks to erect the Empire
State Building.
* - Jet lag was once called boat lag, before there were
jets.
* - Laughter is a proven way to lose weight.
* - Mr. Peanut was invented in 1916 by a Suffolk, Virginia
schoolchild who won $5 in a design contest sponsored by
Planters Peanuts.
* - Nick Mason is the only member of Pink Floyd to appear on
all of the band's albums.
* - Out of all of the postage stamps in the United States
with people's faces on them, there is not one that has the
picture of someone alive.
* - Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
* - People in Sweden, Japan, and Canada are more likely to
know the population of the United States than are Americans.
* - People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because
when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
* - Q is the only letter in the alphabet that is not in the
name of any of the U.S. states.
* - Silly Putty was originally designed as an alternative to
rubber.
* - The audio CD first arrived in the US in 1984.
* - The blueprints for the Eiffel Tower covered more than
14,000 square feet of drafting paper.
* - The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's
"Born in the USA."
* - The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung
cancer.
* - The most expensive advertisement slots in American TV
history were during the last episode of
"Seinfeld". Each 30-second spot sold for an
estimated $1.5 million. NBC made more than $30 million in
advertising revenues on that one show.
* - The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
* - The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called
aglets.
* - Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
* - A coward was originally a boy who took care of cows.
* - "Food & Wine" magazine reported that in
Japan, squid is the most popular topping for Domino's pizza.
* - Americans are eating 113 million cans of SPAM a year!
* - Americans use more Tabasco sauce than any other country.
* - Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for
Ronald Reagan.
* - Canadians eat more Kraft macaroni and cheese packaged
dinners than any nationality in the world.
* - Chocolate manufacturers currently use 40 percent of the
world's almonds and 20 percent of the world's peanuts
* - Chop suey is not a Chinese dish, but was invented in
America by Chinese cooks.
* - Coffee creamer is extremely flammable.
* - Dennys double decker burger contains 1247 calories plus
80 grams of fat!
* - Five hundred and fifty (550) hot dogs are eaten every
second of the day in the United States
* - For beer commercials, they add liquid detergent to the
beer to make it foam more.
* - Frank Epperson accidentally invented the Popsicle at the
age of 11. It wasn’t till some years later that he started
a business to sell the Popsicles.
* - Fresca, the soft drink, had problems when it was sold in
Mexico. There, Fresca is slang for lesbian.
* - In a typical restaurant, customers receive 27 cents
worth of food for each dollar they spend.
* - It takes a week to make a jelly bean.
* - Many high school cafeterias in Europe serve alcohol to
their students who choose to drink.
* - Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
* - Since World War II, American soldiers have been issued
gum with their K rations and survival kits.
* - The average American consumes close to 24 gallons of
beer per year.
* - The average American visits a fast food restaurant six
times a month
* - The average McDonald's Big Mac bun has 198 sesame seeds
on it. * - A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. |
