•A cough releases an explosive charge of air that
can move at speeds of up to 60mph.
•From the 1500’s to the 1700’s tobacco was prescribed by doctors to treat a variety of ailments including headaches, arthritis, toothache and bad breath.
•A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100 of a second.
•Absolutely pure gold is so soft it can be moulded with the hands. A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court. An ounce of gold can be stretched into a wire 50 miles long.
•Barbers at one time combined shaving and haircutting with bloodletting and pulling teeth. The white stripes on a field of red that spiral down a barber pole represent the bandages used in bloodletting.
•Money isn’t made out of paper, its made out of linen.
•In 1945 a computer in Harvard malfunctioned and Grace Hopper, who was working on the computer, investigated, found and moth in one of the circuits and removed it. Ever since, when something goes wrong with a computer it is said
to have a bug in it.
•The sandwich is named for the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-92) for whom sandwiches were made so that he could stay at the gambling table without interruptions for meals.
•The first safety feature for an automobile was invented in 1908 by John O’Leary. He patented a large net, to be installed on the front bumper, to scoop pedestrians out of the way before they could be run over.
•Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
•The worlds costliest coffee, at $130 a pound, is called kopi luwak. It is found in the droppings of a type of marsupial that eats only the best coffee beans. Plantation workers track them and scoop their precious poop.
•Offered a new pen to write with 97% of all people will write their own name.
•The phrase ‘sleep tight’ originated when mattresses were set upon ropes woven through the bed frame. To remedy sagging ropes, one would use a bed key to tighten the rope.
•From the 1500’s to the 1700’s tobacco was prescribed by doctors to treat a variety of ailments including headaches, arthritis, toothache and bad breath.
•A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100 of a second.
•Absolutely pure gold is so soft it can be moulded with the hands. A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court. An ounce of gold can be stretched into a wire 50 miles long.
•Barbers at one time combined shaving and haircutting with bloodletting and pulling teeth. The white stripes on a field of red that spiral down a barber pole represent the bandages used in bloodletting.
•Money isn’t made out of paper, its made out of linen.
•In 1945 a computer in Harvard malfunctioned and Grace Hopper, who was working on the computer, investigated, found and moth in one of the circuits and removed it. Ever since, when something goes wrong with a computer it is said
to have a bug in it.
•The sandwich is named for the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-92) for whom sandwiches were made so that he could stay at the gambling table without interruptions for meals.
•The first safety feature for an automobile was invented in 1908 by John O’Leary. He patented a large net, to be installed on the front bumper, to scoop pedestrians out of the way before they could be run over.
•Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
•The worlds costliest coffee, at $130 a pound, is called kopi luwak. It is found in the droppings of a type of marsupial that eats only the best coffee beans. Plantation workers track them and scoop their precious poop.
•Offered a new pen to write with 97% of all people will write their own name.
•The phrase ‘sleep tight’ originated when mattresses were set upon ropes woven through the bed frame. To remedy sagging ropes, one would use a bed key to tighten the rope.
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