The pants were called waist overalls until 1960 when baby boomers began calling them jeans. There are more than 70 streets in Atlanta with some variation of the name “Peachtree.”. Scholars think Hernán Cortés brought the seeds in 1519 with the intent of the fruits being used ornamentally in gardens. The “Huzenlaub Process” had another unexpected benefit, too: It stopped bug infestations. Taking a 23-minute flight might seem like a waste of money today, but in 1914 Abram Pheil paid $400, which would be $8,500 today, for a 23-minute long plane ride. German chemist Erich Huzenlaub invented a process of parboiling rice to keep more nutrients in the rice and lessen the cooking time. The Italian Space Agency worked with Italian coffee manufacturer, Lavazza, to get the coffee capsules flown up and out into space. Any information published by Condé Nast Traveler is not intended as a substitute for medical advice, and you should not take any action before consulting with a healthcare professional. Lincoln’s liquor license was discovered in 1930 and displayed in a Springfield liquor store. Check out the 9 secrets you never knew about your clothes. But the apples on those trees were much more bitter than the ones you’d find in the supermarket today. This comes 20 years after first playing Scrabble when Richards was 28 years old. In the classic Latin language, aquarium means a “watering place for cattle.” However, aquariums these days aren’t for cows—instead, they are a place for the public to see sea creatures. They’re seeds. Condé Nast Traveler may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. This became the world’s first antibiotic.

Find out why “Pequod” was almost the name for Starbucks. The quick-cook, bug-free rice was a big advantage during World War II, and Converted rice (as it was then known) was airdropped to American and British troops. If you love what’s in the deep blue sea, take an intimate look at these large and tiny sea creatures. Do these interesting facts have you rethinking everything? There he learned some math, but never multiplication or division, only addition. Marissa Laliberte-Simonian is a London-based associate editor with the global promotions team at WebMD’s Medscape.com and was previously a staff writer for Reader's Digest. We are no longer supporting IE (Internet Explorer) as we strive to provide site experiences for browsers that support new web standards and security practices. He played the brave, and buff, Greek hero Achilles. All rights reserved.

After President Dwight D. Eisenhower called to say his design was approved, Heft’s teacher changed his grade to an A. Western Michigan is home to a giant lavender labyrinth so big you can see it on Google Earth. Scientists think the four-toe back paws might help them run faster. William Kent, a landscape architect, invented the first stroller for the third Duke of Devonshire in 1733. But there are plenty of E’s, I’s, O’s, U’s, and Y’s. You can watch more than 100 ponies swim to Chincoteague Island every year in Virginia. To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. At the start of any movie made by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio, there’s the iconic lion that roars at the audience. However, research has found that turtles actually communicate at an extremely low frequency that sounds like “clicks, clucks, and hoots” that can only be heard through a hydrophone (a microphone used underwater). You’ll find a Z (Arizona), a J (New Jersey), and even two X’s (New Mexico and Texas)—but not a single Q. The Los Angeles Coroner’s Office has its own quirky gift shop called Skeletons in the Closet. Next, find out the 11 genius ways that tennis balls can actually make your life better. One ecologist called this a “luxury behavior.” You’d never believe the 12 animals that are probably smarter than you. A 2003 study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Sleep and Consciousness was done on mice to observe what happens to our brains while we sleep. He received a $2 bonus but never any royalties. Thanks to Edison’s invention of the Kinetograph in 1892, he was able to record and watch moving images for the first time. There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of liquid. Thirty years later, the company was renamed Apple Inc. and is no joke.

Want more random facts? Its technical name is octothorpe. At warmer temperatures, the gas molecules inside the ball expand making the ball bounce higher. Franklin D. Roosevelt once accidentally ran into a naked Winston Churchill. Alexander Fleming was one of those quirky scientists who accidentally made a scientific breakthrough. The sole, 83-year-old resident is the city's mayor, librarian, and bartender. He filmed short clips in his studio named Black Maria. There’s an island full of wild monkeys off the coast of South Carolina called Morgan Island, and it's not open to humans. You know that the 16th president of the United States fought for the freedom of slaves and the Union, but what you didn’t know is that he was a licensed bartender. Did you know these 11 food product icons were based on real people?
Héctor Castro played on the Uruguay soccer team during the first ever World Cup in 1930. Henry Ruschmann from Bernardsville, New Jersey was a machinist who crushed plastic while trying to find a way to dispose of it and thus made glitter in 1934.

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In 1872, Russia sold Alaska to the Unites States for about 2 cents per acre. In 2018, Apple Inc. became the country’s first trillion-dollar company. These sounds even come from the egg before the turtle hatches. You might associate St. Patrick’s Day with wearing green and drinking so much you think you actually see leprechauns. During a waffle breakfast with his wife in 1970, the idea came to him of using the waffle texture on the sole of running shoes. If wheat grew, it predicted a female baby. The war ended before scientists perfected the material for gas masks, so the company redeveloped it to be smoother and softer, then marketed Kleenex as facial tissue instead. Oenologists, people who study wine and winemaking, sampled the champagne and described it as, “sometimes cheesy,” with “animal notes,” and that it had elements of “wet hair.” We’ll pass on that and go for the best wine in the world that only costs $10. In the last game between Uruguay versus Argentina, Castro scored the winning goal in the last minute of the game. Based on an ancient papyrus document, Egyptian women urinated on wheat and barley seeds to determine if they were pregnant or not, according to the Office of History in the National Institutes of Health. According to the Levi Strauss website, this was the day that Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis, the innovators behind the sturdy blue jeans we all love, got a patent on the process of adding metal rivets to men’s denim work pants for the first time in history. The entire town of Whittier, Alaksa lives under one roof. According to the Vatican, the Pope’s entire body must be buried intact because his body belongs to the universal Catholic Church. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 1/1/20) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated 1/1/20) and Your California Privacy Rights. American painter John G. Rand was the innovator who made paint tubes from tin and screw cap in the 19th century. However, the company was not fully incorporated until January 3, 1977. President Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed on the White House, but his successor, President Ronald Reagan, had them removed. The two-mile landmark can be seen from space. Mike Powell set the record in 1991 by jumping 8.95 meters, and the horse Extra Dry set the record in 1900 by jumping 6.10 meters. Roosevelt was famous for his many pets, including a one-legged rooster, a badger, a pony, and a small bear. © 2020 Condé Nast.

In reality, the acidity from the tomatoes brought out lead in their pewter plates, so they’d died of lead poisoning. Oh, and it isn’t the world’s largest desert—Antarctica is. After reading 54 intricately crafted chapters, the reader is stopped abruptly mid-sentence. Check out these other 50 fun facts about every state in America. In fact, oranges in warmer regions like Vietnam and Thailand still stay green through maturity. Their dark bluish black color is probably to prevent sunburn. Still, giraffes are among 23 of the world’s biggest living animals. The one-woman town of Monowi, Nebraska is the only officially incorporated municipality with a population of 1. That’s too many fun facts about snow. After the war, the company rebranded to Uncle Ben’s Original Converted Brand Rice, named after one of the company’s best rice suppliers, and the product hit the shelves in 1947. We are no longer supporting IE (Internet Explorer), 12 animal “facts” that are actually false, which “orange” came first: the color or the fruit, 50 fun facts about every state in America, favorite science “facts” are actually false, random facts and trivia you’ll wish you’d always known, 16 little-known interesting facts about the greatest songs of all time, what the original word for avocado means about guacamole’s name, more about the phenomenon and what it means, 13 things movie theater employees won’t tell you, 18 more interesting facts about Washington, DC, characters you didn’t know had full names, “Pequod” was almost the name for Starbucks, farthest you can possibly be from a McDonald’s in the United States, 19 Eiffel Tower facts you never learned before, 13 more Olympic moments that changed history, sushi-inspired but didn’t actually taste like raw fish, take an intimate look at these large and tiny sea creatures, coffee capsules flown up and out into space, 15 more of the most bizarre perks of the British royal family, the 12 animals that are probably smarter than you.


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