Carla Rea’s Weekly Dose Of “I’ll Bet You Didn’t You Know That…”
The weekend is here! Time to mingle, have some fun, and share some fun random facts, or – just be a pompous know it all at the party!
So here it is – your weekly dose of, “I’ll bet you didn’t know that…”
1. Reno, Nevada is named after the FATHER of the man who invented the first working escalator.
2. The first thing ever purchased online was a bag of weed. Some students from Stanford University sold a tiny amount of marijuana to some guys from MIT using an early version of the Internet called “Arpanet” in 1972.
3. A woman’s rights leader named Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president. She ran in 1872 against Ulysses S. Grant, and couldn’t vote for herself . . . because it was 48 years before women got the right.
4. There are more KFC locations in China than the United States . . . a LOT more. There are 7,166 KFCs in China . . . and 3,943 in America.
5. Walt Disney’s last words were “Kurt Russell.” He lost the ability to speak, so he wrote them on a piece of paper. He was probably thinking of movie ideas, since Russell had just signed a 10-year contract with Disney.
6. The Little Red-Haired Girl -Charlie Brown’s unattainable crush – was based on a woman that Charles Schulz briefly dated, but who ultimately married a different guy.
7 “Partly cloudy” and “mostly sunny” mean the exact same thing in a weather report: 26% to 50% cloud cover.
8. Official temperatures are taken in shade, not under sunlight.
9. The people who created the mp3 used the same song over and over to test their compression: Tom’s Diner” by Suzanne Vega. They picked it because, “a warm, acapella voice” is the hardest thing to compress.
10. In China, Spain, and Greece, people mix wine with Coca-Cola.
11. Nutmeg is a hallucinogen. The spice contains ‘myristicin,’ which is a natural compound that has mind-altering effects if ingested in large doses.
-Carla Rea
