Amazing Facts
I admit it, I like trivia. So here are some that made me think or giggle or raise my eyebrows, or all of the above. Special thanks to the web site Mental Floss:
Bob Dylan got his musicians drunk for the recording of “Rainy Day Women #12 and 35″ because, as he claimed, they were too stiff.
Robert Lincoln, son of President Lincoln, was saved from a nasty railroad accident by Edwin Booth. Edwin was the brother of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
Yahoo! is an acronym for “Yet Another Hiearchical Officious Oracle.” David Filo and Jerry Yang were in a trailer in Palo Alto, Calif., thinking of a name for their hobby!
The creator of the iPod first shopped his idea (without success) to Philips and RealNetworks before Apple agreed to market the device.
There is actually a specific area of the brain known as the bilateral vomitation center. It notes when our tummy is upset and queasy, and it makes the final decision whether to barf or not to barf.
Walt Disney’s famous “logo” signature wasn’t really his; it was designed by a staff artist.
Jimi Hendrix actually opened for the Monkees.
Though it’s rarely used, the word used to reference half a computer byte is a “nibble.”
The average salary for a person with a bachelor’s degree is nearly double that for a person with only a high school diploma.
In New Jersey and Oregon, pumping your own gas is actually illegal. These states banned self-service out of fear that untrained consumers might light themselves on fire. The laws are surprisingly popular with citizens, and any hint of repealing them has been met with plenty of opposition.
Despite being nominated five times, Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace Prize. Although posthumous awards aren’t given, the Nobel Committee came as close as possible in 1948, the year he died, when they didn’t give out an award because “there was no suitable living candidate.”
And finally...
Picky linguists will tell you that the feminine version of “dude” is “dudine,” not “dudette.”
Bob Dylan got his musicians drunk for the recording of “Rainy Day Women #12 and 35″ because, as he claimed, they were too stiff.
Robert Lincoln, son of President Lincoln, was saved from a nasty railroad accident by Edwin Booth. Edwin was the brother of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
Yahoo! is an acronym for “Yet Another Hiearchical Officious Oracle.” David Filo and Jerry Yang were in a trailer in Palo Alto, Calif., thinking of a name for their hobby!
The creator of the iPod first shopped his idea (without success) to Philips and RealNetworks before Apple agreed to market the device.
There is actually a specific area of the brain known as the bilateral vomitation center. It notes when our tummy is upset and queasy, and it makes the final decision whether to barf or not to barf.
Walt Disney’s famous “logo” signature wasn’t really his; it was designed by a staff artist.
Jimi Hendrix actually opened for the Monkees.
Though it’s rarely used, the word used to reference half a computer byte is a “nibble.”
The average salary for a person with a bachelor’s degree is nearly double that for a person with only a high school diploma.
In New Jersey and Oregon, pumping your own gas is actually illegal. These states banned self-service out of fear that untrained consumers might light themselves on fire. The laws are surprisingly popular with citizens, and any hint of repealing them has been met with plenty of opposition.
Despite being nominated five times, Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace Prize. Although posthumous awards aren’t given, the Nobel Committee came as close as possible in 1948, the year he died, when they didn’t give out an award because “there was no suitable living candidate.”
And finally...
Picky linguists will tell you that the feminine version of “dude” is “dudine,” not “dudette.”
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