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This book contain interesting facts and trivia about things you didnt know, and likely dont care about, but its fun! These trivia facts are perfect for playing pub quizzes with your friends or just a night in with random facts you didnt know about. Funny facts goes a long way, enjoy the read!
- After four nominations, Morgan Freeman won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for 2004s Million Dollar Baby.
- Jockeys carrying their saddle are weighed at the beginning and end of every horse race.
- Grand Central Terminal in New York City spans 48 acres and services more than 100 tracks in total.
- Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers were introduced by Ernest & Julio Gallo in 1981.
- Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak worked as a DJ for the Armed Forces Radio Network while serving in Vietnam.
- Volleyball was invented by William G. Morgan at a Massachusetts YMCA in 1895.
- Architect Julia Morgan designed publisher William Randolph Hearsts castle at San Simeon, California.
- In 1909 Abraham Lincoln became the first person depicted on a U.S. coin.
- Ohio was the first state west of the Alleghenies which is why its state seal shows the sun rising over the mountains.
- The 13-year and 17-year locusts aren't really locusts but rather cicadas.
- 79 square centimeters is the surface area of an average brick.
- Karaoke, meaning empty orchestra, was invented in Kobe, Japan in the early 1970s.
- Anger about the first military drafts in the U.S. established by federal law spurred riots in July 1863.
- Rapper Coolio was born Artis Ivey Jr.
- Thomas Hunt Morgan won a Nobel Prize in 1933 for his work on heredity using the genes of fruit flies.
- Now producing more than 500 million snacks annually, the first Slim Jim was snapped into in 1929.
- A wandering albatross can live for up to 80 years.
- There is an average of more than 2 credit cards for every single American.
- The Arthur Avenue Market in New York City was established by Mayor LaGuardia in 1940 to eliminate the pushcarts that he found a nuisance.
- Some prehistoric relatives of the dragonfly had wingspans in excess of two feet.
- Christchurch, New Zealand was named for a college at Oxford.
- Leo Tolstoy took six years to write War & Peace.
- Patience and Fortitude are the names of the lions at the front of the New York City public library.
- Lethologica is the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
- Eighty dollars is the average amount withdrawn from the worlds 1.6 million ATMs.
- 672 is the international dialing code for Antarctica.
- The Basilique Notre-Dame in Montreal has one of the largest bells in North America, weighing 12 tons.
- The patron saint of bricklayers is St. Stephen.
- The United States purchased the U.S. Virgin Islands from Denmark during WWI when Americans feared they might be used as a German submarine base.
- Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau invented the pressure regulating valve used in diving tanks.
- Persians began knitting rugs in about 400 B.C., and some of the patterns remain popular today.
- All Saints day on November 1 dates to the dedication of a Vatican chapel to all saints around 735 by Pope Gregory III.
- The red sky in Edvard Munch's 1893 painting "The Scream" may be from the debris in the Oslo air from the eruption of the volcano Krakatoa half a world away.
- Until 1950 the soft drink 7 Up contained lithium citrate, a mood stabilizing drug.
- At the height of its popularity in the early-2000s, ABC was airing Who Wants to be a Millionaire? in primetime five nights a week.
- The first radio station to be webcast was WXYC in Chapel Hill, NC in 1994.
- The slogan of the Boy Scouts is Do a good turn daily.
- Iceland is the country that most heavily uses debit and credit cards with about 70% of all transactions taking place on plastic.
- Inside the heart there are four valves; two semilunar, a bicuspid, and a tricuspid.
- In 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil War, nearly the entire student body of the University of Mississippi enlisted in the Confederate army and suffered a 100% casualty rate.
- The city of Madrid is the site of a Moorish fortress named Magerit built in the 900s.
- Archie was the name of the first internet search engine.
- Southwest Airlines has utilized several different humorous taglines in their advertising including "The Somebody Else Up There Who Loves You" and "You're Now Free To Move About The Country."
- Henry Winkler earned a master's degree from the Yale School of Drama four years before landing the role of "The Fonz.
- Nisei, meaning second generation, is a Japanese word for a person born in America from parents who emigrated from Japan.
- Londons Newgate Prison was in use from 1188 to 1902 and appears in a number of classic literary works including Tom Jones and Barnaby Rudge.
- Under Chiang Kai-shek, Nanking was the capital of all China.
- Large parts of Urs great ziggurat temple tower still exist even though it was constructed more than 4,000 years ago.
- Yale is the second most common college for a U.S. President to have attended with five presidents.
- A royal birth in Great Britain is traditionally accompanied by a 41-gun salute.
- The Liberace Museum in Paradise, Nevada house the worlds largest rhinestone a foot in diameter weighing 59 pounds.
- Lucy Maud Montgomerys 1908 book Anne of Green Gables is the bestselling book ever written by a citizen of Canada.
- The Sooty Tern spends the most time in the air of any bird with the ability to take off and stay airborne for more than three years without ever touching down.
- The typical lifespan of a $1 bill is 18 months.
- A McDonalds Big Mac averages 178 sesame seeds on its bun.
- A cord of wood can produce about 7 million toothpicks.
- Herman Badillo, the first Puerto Rican elected to the U.S. House of Representatives was elected by New York in 1970.
- The baseball team that started in Philadelphia in 1901 is now the Oakland As.
- Gestapo was derived from three German words that meant secret state police.
- An AA battery typically holds 1.5 volts.
- James Buchanan had the most siblings of any United States President with 6 sisters and 4 brothers.
- The unit of length used to express electromagnetic wavelengths is the angstrom the symbol for which is an A with a small circle above it.
- Released in 1987 George Harrisons cover of Got My Mind Set on You was the last single by any member of the Beatles to top the U.S. pop charts.
- In the early-19th century it took 18 years to compile the first Websters Dictionary.
- On February 23, 1954 Dr. Jonas Salk began inoculating children against polio in Pittsburgh.
- Popularly known as "The Oldest House", the Gonzalez-Alvarez House in St. Augustine, Florida city dates from around 1723.
- With its food served "With the Speed of Sound", the Top Hat chain in Oklahoma changed its name to Sonic in 1959.
- Martha Washington was the first First Lady to appear on U.S. currency when she appeared on the $1 silver certificate in the late-1800s.
- Named for protestant reformer John Calvin, Calvinism is associated with the values of thrift and labor.
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