One of the first soup kitchens to pop up during the Great Depression was privately funded and served about 120,000 free meals a day at the height of its popularity. It was started by.....Al Capone.
The ancient Egyptians had a pregnancy test. The woman pee'd on a wheat or barley seeds, and if they took root, she was pregnant. The method was scientifically tested in the 1960's and found to be about 70% accurate.
The original recipe for Tootsie Rolls - still in use today - calls for yesterday's leftovers to be mixed into today's batch. No, my info doesn't say what they did on the first day.
You know Eddie Van Halen played lead guitar on Michael Jackson's Beat It. But did you know it was Steve Lukather of Toto on rhythm guitar?
When we read we tend to to skip certain obvious words, so that we can focus more on on the less common words. We recognize them and skip over them so quickly that we don't always notice when there are two of of them. If you doubt that, reread the previous paragraph. You did it three times.
In the event of nuclear war, the beer will still be safe to drink. The US government tested for this in 1956.
Violet Jessop, a stewardess for Great Britain's White Star Line, survived the sinking of the Titanic and her sister ship the Britannic, as well as a collision that damaged their 3rd sister ship, the Olympic.
