##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why Crackers Have Holes The name “cracker” comes from a fateful day in 1801 in Massachusetts when Josiah Bent accidentally burned a batch of what we now call crackers. As the crackers burned, they made a crackling noise, which inspired the name. Bent was also the one who pioneered the cracker as […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why You Used to Have to Use #2 Pencils With Scantrons “Pencil” comes from the Latin “pencillus”, meaning “little tail”.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and More Facts About V for Vendetta The scene in V for Vendetta where V knocks over the dominoes forming the giant letter V took four professional domino assemblers 200 hours to set up and included over 22,000 dominoes.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn How Deaf People Think Ever wondered how the deaf wake themselves up in the morning? Well, there are many different ways, none being quite as fool proof as a blaring loud noise is among the hearing. The most foolproof method, outside of someone just coming to wake you up, is a very […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn About the History of French Fries The word “potato” comes from the Haitian word “batata”, which was their name for a sweet potato. This later came to Spanish as “patata” and eventually into English as “potato”.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Web Facts The first domain ever registered was Symbolics.com on March 15, 1985. It was registered by the Symbolics Computer Corp. Since that time, well over 200 million domains have been registered, about half of which are registered with the “.com” extension.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Honey Bee Facts Honey Bees share out jobs based on their age. For instance, worker bees that are 1-2 days old spend their time cleaning cells, starting with the one they were born in, as well as keeping the brood warm; from 3-5 days old, they feed older larvae; from […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn What Causes Red Hair Scientists in 2005 from the University of Edinburgh found that people without souls, a.k.a. redheads, have a higher tolerance for pain than normal people. This is because the MC1R mutation, which all soulless have, triggers the excess release of pheomelanin which, among other things, stimulates a brain receptor […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Tim Allen Facts Tim Allen’s birth name was Timothy Allen Dick, which he later had legally shortened to Tim Allen when his career began to take off.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Learn the Difference Between a Moron, an Imbecile, and an Idiot The word “moron” was coined in 1910 by psychologist Henry H. Goddard and was derived from the Ancient Greek word “moros”, which meant “dull”.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn How Spam Came to Mean Junk Message The earliest documented commercial spam message is often incorrectly cited as the 1994 “Green Card Spam” incident. However, the actual first documented commercial spam message was for a new model of Digital Equipment Corporation computers and was sent on ARPANET to 393 recipients by Gary […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Baseball Facts When Henry Chadwick, the creator of the baseball box score, developed the ERA (earned run average) statistic, his goal was not to evaluate a pitchers worth, but rather to provide a statistic that differentiated between runs caused by batting skill and those caused by lack of fielding skill; […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Baseball Facts Text Version: Henry Chadwick, the creator of the baseball box score, chose the “K” to denote a strikeout because it was the last letter in “struck” as in “struck out”. Chadwick often liked to use the last letter of words instead of the first, particularly when he felt […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why It’s Nearly Impossible to Tickle Yourself Contrary to popular belief, most laughter is not associated with humor, but rather stems from non-humor related social interactions. This was discovered from a study covering over 2,000 cases of naturally occurring laughter, almost none of which stemmed from jokes or other such humor devices. […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Astronomy Facts Text Version: The Sun does not have enough mass to go supernova and explode. However, in about 5 billion years it will enter a red giant phase steadily expanding until it consumes the Earth. But fear not, the Earth will already be dead in about 1 billion years […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Jimmy Stewart Facts Jimmy Stewart’s final film role was as the voice of Wylie Burp, in the 1991 movie An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and More Twinkies Facts Text Version: The name “Twinkies” for the sponge-cake food was thought up by James Dewar, the Vice President of Continental Bakeries who sold under the Hostess brand. On the way to a marketing meeting, he saw a billboard advertising “Twinkle-Toes Shoes”, and thought up the name “Twinkies”.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Ostrich Facts The male ostrich is capable of making a “roaring” noise not too dissimilar from a lion’s roar, but tending to add a hiss with it.
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