##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn What the M’s in M&Ms Stand For Text Version The “M&M” was modeled after a candy Forrest Mars, Sr. encountered while in Spain during the 1930s. During the Spanish civil war there, he observed soldiers eating chocolate pellets with a hard shell of tempered chocolate. This prevented the candies from melting, which […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and for more Interesting Facts About Oranges Text Version Navel oranges are named for their belly-button-like formations on the opposite side from the stem. As a general rule, the bigger the navel in the orange, the sweeter it will be.
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Today I found out that a cockroach can live without its head for up to a week. While many have commonly heard cockroaches are the species most likely to survive a nuclear war, which isn’t entirely accurate by the way, and they are well known as being among the most adaptable creatures on the earth, it’s still somewhat of a […]
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Today I found out why you get goose bumps when it’s cold or as result of a strong emotion. It turns out, goose bumps are an involuntary reflex of mammals called piloerection, usually triggered by a hormone released on certain situations that causes their body hair to stand. With time, humans have evolved to have less body hair, so what […]
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Please help me welcome Julia as a regular contributing writer to Today I Found Out. Julia is yet another talented writer from BuzzFactory, along with Noreen who joined Today I Found Out about five months ago and occasionally contributes articles, as well as makes the awesome infographics you’ll find in the Infographic section on Today I Found Out. Julia will […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and More Prohibition Related Facts Text Version The word “prohibition” comes from the Latin “prohibitionem”, meaning “hindering or forbidding”. It was used to mean “forced alcohol abstinence” as early as 1851.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn the Difference Between an Idiot, a Moron, and an Imbicile Text Version Before “Down’s Syndrome” was called such, people with Down’s syndrome were called “Mongolian idiots” and the syndrome itself was called “mongolism”. This comes from the fact that people thought that Down’s syndrome individuals resembled Mongolians. So next time you feel […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Read More Interesting Twinkie Facts Text Version Twinkies were created in 1930 as ladyfinger-shaped spongecakes. They were first thought up by James A. Dewar, the vice president of Continental Bakeries who sold under the Hostess brand. Dewar sought to put the machines used to make cream filled strawberry shortcake to good use when […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Microwave Facts Text Version The first known documented use of the term “microwave” was in 1931 in a Telegraph & Telephone Journal: “When trials with wavelengths as low as 18 cm were made known, there was undisguised surprise that the problem of the micro-wave had been solved so soon.”
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##EMBED## Click Here to Learn Why Toilets Are Also Called Johns Text Version The 1960 movie “Pyscho” is thought to be the first movie where a toilet is shown being flushed. The momentous flushing took place just before Janet Leigh’s character takes a shower and subsequently gets stabbed to death.
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##EMBED## Click Here to Read More Interesting Worm Related Facts Text Version According to research done at the Rothamsted Experimental Station, depending on soil quality, there can be anywhere from 250,000-1.75 million earthworms per acre of land. Poor quality soil will have closer to the 250,000 range; good quality soil, such as farm land, will have closer to the 1.75 […]
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##EMBED## Click Here to Learn How One Way Mirrors Work Text Version The Italian town of Viganella gets no direct sunlight for about seven weeks each winter. In order to solve this problem, in 2006, a computer controlled mirror was installed which is approximately 25 feet by 15 feet. The mirror is controlled such that it reflects sunlight into the […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for More Interesting Simpson Related Facts Text Version In the Arabic broadcast of The Simpsons episodes, Homer drinks soda instead of beer and eats Egyptian beef sausages instead of hot dogs.
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##EMBED## Click Here for More Interesting Civil War Related Facts Text Version The total number of American deaths during the Civil War were about 292,000 in battle, which was about 2% of the population, and about 625,000 total killed as a result of the war (including those dead of disease and the like, which was a major problem in soldier’s […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for More Interesting Soft Drink Related Facts Text Version Carbonating beverages, introducing CO2 into the drink mix under pressure, makes the drink slightly more acidic (carbonic acid), which serves to sharpen the flavor and produces a slight burning sensation. It also helps preserve the drink longer without going bad.
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##EMBED## Click Here to Read More Interesting Meat Related Facts Text Version Fish are primarily white meat due to the fact that they don’t ever need their muscles to support themselves and thus need much less myoglobin or sometimes none at all in a few cases; they float, so their muscle usage is much less than say a 1000 pound […]
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##EMBED## Click Here to Learn the Origin of the Word Soccer Text Version Soccer balls were originally painted with the now classic black and white checkered look in order to make them more visible on black and white TV during the 1970 FIFA World Cup. Naturally, people wanted to buy balls that looked like those that the professionals used on […]
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Today I launched a new section on Today I Found Out: Quick Facts This section of the site will be updated several times daily with various interesting quick facts on a variety of different topics. Unlike most short “facts” you’ll find around on the internet, the quick facts you’ll find in this section have all been thoroughly researched to verify […]
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