Random Facts
- Elurophobia- Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia)
- In 1997, it cost a family of four an average of $106 to attend a Major League Baseball game, $214 to see an NBA team, $222 to attend an NFL game and $229 in the NHL.
- What was Visa Card called before it was called Visa? It was 'Bank Americard.' Mastercard used to be 'Mastercharge'
- The smallest monkey is about the size of you index finger!
- In 1996, McDonald's overtook Coca-Cola as the best-known brand in the world.
- George Washington did not take care of his teeth. He was left with one bicuspid before he had dentures made. The dentures were not made of wood (as common myth goes). They were hippopatomus, deer, horse, and human teeth screwed into an ivory base.
- Kainophobia- Fear of anything new, novelty.
- Philemaphobia or Philematophobia- Fear of kissing.
- In 1971 the UN declared that there was 576100 tonnes of tea in China
- When the Ku Klux Klan first started the original idea was for them to wear a white sheep. But a clerical error was made and the supplies department ordered 500 white sheets by mistake.
- Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia- Fear of blood.
- Cynophobia- Fear of dogs or rabies.
- Although many of the bricks used to build the LegoLand theme park came in colors unavailable to the general public, none of the bricks came in sizes, shapes, or forms that cannot be found at a local toy store. All the bricks were either normal Lego (ages 6 and up), Duplo (for toddlers), and Primo (for babies).
- Mechanophobia- Fear of machines.
- An epidemiological anomaly is that japan, with the highest smoking rate, has the lowest lung-cancer rate. The u.s. has the second highest smoking rate with 400,000 related deaths per year compared to japan's 110,186 deaths.
- In Elizabethan slang, the term 'to die' meant to have an orgasm. Shakespeare used this phrase in King Lear.
- President Ulysses S. Grant's last word before he died was 'water'.
- What's the origin of the word 'barbecue?' It's derived from French-speaking pirates, who called this Caribbean pork feast 'de barbe et queue,' which translates 'from beard to tail.' In other words, the pig roast reflected the fact that the hog was an eminently versatile animal that could be consumed from head to toe.
- John F. Kennedy was assassinated at exactly 12:30 CST on November 22, 1963.
- Disneyland has a person whose position is Director of Synergy.
