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Post up facts and things that hardly anyone knows...... (for entertainment purposes only. NO need to fact check)

If you were alive 100 years ago, you would have been in a world that didn't know chocolate chip cookies. Ruth Wakefield, who owned the Toll House Inn with her husband, came up with the recipe in 1938 and included it in her recipe book that year. She intended it to be served with ice cream.

She sold the rights to the cookie recipe to Nestle's Chocolate, who gave her $1 for it, as well as a lifetime supply of baking chocolate. They still advertise the recipe as "Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies". A timeless discovery
 
Kern Dog said:
Before the Hollywood sign read "Hollywood", it read "Hollywoodland". The sign was first erected in 1923 as a temporary real estate advertisement; the "land" part came down in 1949, but the rest of the sign stayed because it was widely recognized by then. But - and get this - in 1924, a large, white dot, 35 feet in diameter and ringed with lights, was added under the sign. It was an eye-catching addition to an already famous sign, sure, but it also served as a political statement, reflecting the “good business conditions” of Los Angeles, a status that was noted with a white dot on a grayscale map produced by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. People began referring to Los Angeles as a “White Spot of America,” boasting that it was without crime, communism, and corruption. Thus, the white dot was added to the Hollywoodland sign, and the tagline “Keep the White Spot White” was used to promote investments in the area. The slogan had other connotations, as well, particularly in a city that was both anti-union and racially segregated at the time. My, how things have changed...

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I did know that one's origins, but was clueless about what date/years it was
was way before it turned liberal
 
PlymCrazy said:
At one time, chicken wings were unwanted leftover pieces of the bird and commonly discarded as scrap or used only for soups or broths.
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eventually gave us Hooters

God bless the chicken wing

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eldubb440 said:
I was under the impression that I knew a lot of useless stuff; but this thread makes me realize I really don't. So I can only assume everything I know is useful to some degree.
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exactly, some just have more than others

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eldubb440 said:
I was under the impression that I knew a lot of useless stuff; but this thread makes me realize I really don't. So I can only assume everything I know is useful to some degree.
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There is an abundance of useless information, including:

Crocodiles can't stick out their tongues.
Snails can sleep for three years.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand. The list goes on and on!

You can thank me later!!!! LOL
 
Hey-O said:
There is an abundance of useless information, including:

Crocodiles can't stick out their tongues.
Snails can sleep for three years.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand. The list goes on and on!

You can thank me later!!!! LOL
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I take issue with this one :icon_fU: .......but thank you anyway :drinks:
 
Samuel L Jackson and Stevie Wonder are cousins of Michael Jackson and family.
 
33 IMP said:
I'm ambidextrous. Do I get to pick?
(I tell people that ambidextrous means.... I can't do anything right with either hand. My gf agrees. At least my dogs love me!)
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truly ambidextrous means you can switch hands while gaining a stroke :lowdown:
 
eldubb440 said:
I take issue with this one :icon_fU: .......but thank you anyway :drinks:
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It's not too late to change up, but be quick about it, you're burning daylight!! LOL.

I taught my son the art of the Frisbee early on. We started ten feet apart, and I never paid attention to the fact that he mirror imagined me. As we stood there, I was using my right hand, and he was using his left. He couldn't pick his nose with his left hand, but that boy was proficient with a Frisbee left-handed. It's not always nature, it can be nurtured, by a fool...... me!


It's just another bit of useless information!! LOL.
 
Merle Haggard once held the Guinness World Record for buying the largest round of drinks ever bought by one person, a record that stood for more than three decades. In 1983 at Billy Bob’s in Fort Worth, Texas, Haggard ordered 5,095 “C.C. Waterbacks,” a shot of Canadian Club whiskey with a water chaser, for patrons at the bar. The bar used around 40 gallons of whiskey for the round of drinks, and the tab for the order came out to $12,737.50 - $2.50 each. When the bar owner, Billy Bob Barnett, presented Merle with the check, he offered to buy Haggard a drink on the house – and Merle took him up on it. Buying the same round of drinks today would cost more than $40k...


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There are unsubstantiated reports of demolition derbies being held very sporadically as early as the 1920s and 1930s, but Larry Mendolsohn, a former race car driver turned promotor, is credited with bringing it into the mainstream in 1958 - he even patented the concept. After realizing that spectators seemed to enjoy watching cars crash more than they did watching the races, Mendelsohn began hosting derbies at Islip Speedway in Islip, New York in 1958. The ABC television show Wide World of Sports began a long run of broadcasting tape-delayed Islip derbies beginning in the early 1960s, and this exposure gave the event national attention and helped increase its popularity. Islip also hosted wildly popular Figure 8 races as well, right up until they closed after the 1984 season. As an aside, I used watch the occasional derby in the Astrodome when I was a kid in the 70s, and I also used to compete in the occasional demolition derby at Battleground Speedway in the 1990s..




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Kern Dog said:
There are unsubstantiated reports of demolition derbies being held very sporadically as early as the 1920s and 1930s, but Larry Mendolsohn, a former race car driver turned promotor, is credited with bringing it into the mainstream in 1958 - he even patented the concept. After realizing that spectators seemed to enjoy watching cars crash more than they did watching the races, Mendelsohn began hosting derbies at Islip Speedway in Islip, New York in 1958. The ABC television show Wide World of Sports began a long run of broadcasting tape-delayed Islip derbies beginning in the early 1960s, and this exposure gave the event national attention and helped increase its popularity. Islip also hosted wildly popular Figure 8 races as well, right up until they closed after the 1984 season. As an aside, I used watch the occasional derby in the Astrodome when I was a kid in the 70s, and I also used to compete in the occasional demolition derby at Battleground Speedway in the 1990s..




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Irwindale roundy course still hosts figure eight races.
And trailer races, and skid plate races (front wheel drivers, with skid plates welded to the rear wheels) And chain races and motor home races.
Their "Night of Destruction"s are famous.
There is a bunch of videos on you tube.
 
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With hurricane Milton being in all the news, I thought I would post some interesting past U.S. hurricane disasters. Note that the wind is not what kills the most people, it's the storm surge/flooding.

The 1900 Galveston hurricane is the deadliest natural disaster in the U.S. history. It's estimated 6,000-12,000 people died in the U.S., the official report cites 8,000. Most of the deaths occurred in and near Galveston, Tx. after the storm surge inundated the city with 8-12ft of water.

The Okeechobee hurricane of 1928 was one of the deadliest hurricanes in recorded history. It entered Florida around West Palm Beach. The 145mph winds did a lot of damage but the rain with the hurricane caused Lake Okeechobee to overflow the south bank with flooded hundreds of square miles as deep as 20ft. it's estimated at least 2500 people drowned.

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China is home to the three worst natural disasters (not disease or famine) in recorded history. An estimated 4,000,000 people are said to have died in the 1931 floods, an estimated 2,000,000 people died in the 1887 Yellow River flood, and an estimated 655,000 people died in the 1976 Tangshan earthquake. That's a lotta Chinese, but not nearly enough...
 
33 IMP said:
Irwindale roundy course still hosts figure eight races.
And trailer races, and skid plate races (front wheel drivers, with skid plates welded to the rear wheels) And chain races and motor home races.
Their "Night of Destruction"s are famous.
There is a bunch of videos on you tube.
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Route 66 in Joliet IL used to have figure 8 school bus races. Talk about carnage LOL
 
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