interesting fact thread!

[Grandi Floras]

The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Hupmobile.​

 

[Grandi Floras]

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses.
The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.​

 

[soleil3313]

The state stone of Michigan is the Petosky stone.

 

[ZosofanCMR]

The Beatles were originally a skiffle group known as the Quarrymen, they then changed their name to Long John (as in Lennon) and the Silver Beetles, then it was the Silver Beetles, then Just Beatles.

Additionally, on top of Ringo replacing Pete Best as the drummer, originally Stu Sutcliffe was the Bassist for the group a renowned artist around Liverpool, he quit the band to pursue his art in Hamburg, and Paul switched from second guitar to bass. Stu later died from a brain aneurysm just before the group took off, the effects of a bar room beat down in Liverpool.

 

[frankman]

Bergschenhoek, the town where I live, lies 7,5 metres below sea level.

 

[mergirl]

do non giants have to wear scuba gear??

 

[Grandi Floras]

Nondairy creamer is flammable.​

 

[Chef]

The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.

 

[Grandi Floras]

The pet ferret was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.​

 

[Adamantoise]

The Silverfish belongs to one of the oldest orders of insects in existence-the order Thysanura is a group of insects estimated as being over 300 million years old!

 

[Adamantoise]

On a similar note,moths and butterflies are two insects belonging to the group Lepidoptera,a greek word meaning 'scale wing' which refers to the powder that these species keep on their wings-the 'powder' of course being microscopic scales,hence the name. Phew!

 

[Rowan]

I love this thread...it makes me happy

and to contribute again...

An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!

 

[Grandi Floras]

You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals.​

 

[Grandi Floras]

The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse.​

 

[Rowan]

You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals.​

smoked gouda...*droooooool*

 

[Grandi Floras]

Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'.​

 

[Grandi Floras]

The search engine Google got its name from the word 'googol’, which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.​

 

[Grandi Floras]

Today May 7, 1824 - Beethoven's 9th Symphony performed for 1st time​

 

[Admiral_Snackbar]

The American Cockroach can live for a week off the glue on the back of a postage stamp.

Enough dirty plastic diapers are generated each year that if placed end to end would stretch to the moon and back 8 times.

 

[Adamantoise]

There is no cure for the common cold.