50 Amazing Facts to Help Bolster Your Knowledge!
Peter Pizagalli
Published
07/02/2014
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The 50-star American flag was designed by an Ohio high school student for a class project. His teacher originally gave him a B -
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Barry Manilow did not write his hit I Write the Songs -
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He did, however, write State Farm's Like a Good Neighbor jingle -
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And I am stuck on Band-Aids, cause Band-Aid's stuck on me -
5.
A California woman once tried to sue the makers of Cap'n Crunch because Crunch Berries contained no berries of any kind -
6.
An early ATM was deemed a failure because its only users were prostitutes and gamblers who didnt want to deal with tellers face to face -
7.
At one point in the 1990s, 50 of all CDs produced worldwide were for AOL -
8.
Before settling on the Seven Dwarfs we know today, Disney considered Chesty, Tubby, Burpy, Deafy, Hickey, Wheezy, and Awful -
9.
Bob Ross on his Air Force career I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrinewho screams at you for being late to work -
10.
Chock Full o' Nuts coffee does not contain nuts. It's named for a chain of nut stores that the founder converted into coffee shops -
11.
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? But on average, a Licking Machine made at Purdue needed 364 -
12.
Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins also wrote for Clarissa Explains It All -
13.
In 1980, Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city -
14.
In 1986, Apple launched a clothing line -
15.
In 1999, the U.S. government paid the Zapruder family 16 million for the film of JFK's assassination -
16.
In 2001, Beaver College changed its name to Arcadia in part because anti-porn filters blocked access to the school's website -
17.
In 2006, an Australian man tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The price rose to 3,000 before eBay shut it down -
18.
In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck -
19.
In Spain, Mr. Clean is known as Don Limpio -
20.
In the mid-1980s, Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas was the voice of Charlie Brown's sister Sally -
21.
kentucky-old-and-new-logoKentucky tweaked its Wildcat logo in 1994 after people complained the tongue was too phallic -
22.
leopards The Arkansas School for the Deaf's nickname is the Leopards. The Deaf Leopards -
23.
mao-kissinger In 1973, Mao Zedong told Henry Kissinger that China had an excess of females and offered the U.S. 10 million Chinese women -
24.
Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive. Researchers hoping to view them must sign a disclaimer -
25.
In Qaddafi's compound, Libyan rebels found a photo album filled with pictures of Condoleezza Rice -
26.
New Mexico State's first graduating class in 1893 had only one studentand he was shot and killed before graduation -
27.
Nutella was invented during WWII, when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate to extend his chocolate ration -
28.
Only one McDonalds in the world has turquoise arches. Sedona, AZ thought yellow clashed with the natural red rock -
29.
Quentin Tarantino played an Elvis impersonator on The Golden Girls -
30.
Redondo Beach, CA adopted the Goodyear Blimp as the city's official bird in 1983 -
31.
Reed Hastings was inspired to start Netflix after racking up a 40 late fee on a VHS copy of Apollo 13 -
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The original Space Jam website still exists. -
33.
The actor who was inside R2-D2 hated the guy who played C-3PO, calling him the rudest man I've ever met -
34.
The American Psychiatric Associations DSM-V handbook classifies caffeine withdrawal as a mental disorder -
35.
The first webcam watched a coffee pot. It allowed researchers at Cambridge to monitor the coffee situation without leaving their desks -
36.
The light emitted by 200,000 galaxies makes our universe a shade of beige. Scientists call the color cosmic latte -
37.
The medical term for ice cream headaches is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia -
38.
The Pittsburgh Penguins made Mister Rogers an honorary captain in 1991 -
39.
The SarcMark was invented by Paul Sak to emphasize a sarcastic phrase, sentence or message -
40.
The Scots have a word for that panicky hesitation you get when introducing someone whose name you can't remember "tartle" -
41.
There was a third Apple founder. Ronald Wayne pictured at home in 2010 sold his 10 stake for 800 in 1976 -
42.
There's a basketball court above the Supreme Court. It's known as the Highest Court in the Land -
43.
Truman Show Delusion is a mental condition marked by a patient's belief that he or she is the star of an imaginary reality show -
44.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima for work when the first A-bomb hit, made it home to Nagasaki for the second, and lived to be 93 -
45.
unfriend-The word unfriend appeared in print all the way back in 1659 -
46.
When fruit flies are infected with a parasite, they self-medicate with boozethey seek out food with higher alcohol content -
47.
When the Westboro Baptist Church protested a soldier's funeral in Oklahoma, their tires were slashed. People in town refused to repair them -
48.
When three-letter airport codes became standard, airports that had been using two letters simply added an X -
49.
Wilford Brimley was Howard Hughes's bodyguard -
50.
William McKinley was on the 500 bill, Grover Cleveland was on the 1,000, and James Madison was on the 5,000
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