Coca-Cola was first served in Atlanta.
In 1886 a place called Jacob's Pharmacy started serving it. The formula was created by a pharmacist named John Pemberton.
Coca-Cola was first served in Atlanta.
In 1886 a place called Jacob's Pharmacy started serving it. The formula was created by a pharmacist named John Pemberton.
Leo Hirshfield introduced the "Tootsie Roll" candy in 1896.
The idea for the name of the candy came from Hirshfield's daughter's nickname Tootsie.:)
Blocks of tea were used as money in 18th Century Siberia.
Althaiophobia................
Is the fear of marshmallows.
:drop:
A modern violin is made up of over 70 different pieces.
Just had to visit this thread as I was afraid Groundhog day had really happened.Every day for the last few weeks, it seems that I have had an information e-mail letting me know that sean has posted in strange facts. IT'S TRUE? Sean, how many strange facts can one person know?
Here's a strange fact while I'm here..
In the 'olden days' doctors would test for diabetes by sipping the urine of the patient to taste it's sweetness. (uurgghh) Bet Diabetes was pretty rare then huh!:cheers:
Sorry about the abundant emails.........you can turn them off by not subscribing to the thread. Hope you don't though.....rather see the post's enjoyed from time to time. :Dsarahr said:
Just had to visit this thread as I was afraid Groundhog day had really happened.
Don't know but i still have a few more up my sleeve.;)Sean, how many strange facts can one person know?
:drop:Here's a strange fact while I'm here..
In the 'olden days' doctors would test for diabetes by sipping the urine of the patient to taste it's sweetness. (uurgghh) Bet Diabetes was pretty rare then huh!:cheers:
The first product to have a bar-code was Wrigley's gum.
This is a slice of golf history I thought you might enjoy. I never knew
why there were 18 holes on a golf course. Why do full-length golf
courses have 18 holes, and not 20, or 10 or an even dozen? Very few
golfers know the answer to this one -- but the following is true.
During a discussion among the club's membership board at St. Andrews in
1858, one of the members pointed out that it takes exactly 18 shots to
polish off a fifth of Scotch. By limiting himself to only one shot of
Scotch per hole, the Scot figured a round of golf was finished when the
Scotch ran out. And this is how the decision was made to build St.
Andrews
as the world's first 18 hole golf course.
"Always laugh when you can. It is a cheap medicine"
Lord Byron
Take a photo tour of Cape Cod and the Islands!
www.capecodphotoalbum.com
Leave it to the Scottish! Sounds more suited for my Irish ancestors, though!hcjilson said:
This is a slice of golf history I thought you might enjoy. I never knew
why there were 18 holes on a golf course. Why do full-length golf
courses have 18 holes, and not 20, or 10 or an even dozen? Very few
golfers know the answer to this one -- but the following is true.
During a discussion among the club's membership board at St. Andrews in
1858, one of the members pointed out that it takes exactly 18 shots to
polish off a fifth of Scotch. By limiting himself to only one shot of
Scotch per hole, the Scot figured a round of golf was finished when the
Scotch ran out. And this is how the decision was made to build St.
Andrews
as the world's first 18 hole golf course.
~Cindy
"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -Catherine Aird-
More about golf.
There are three golf balls sitting on the moon. In case you ask.......the astronaut Alan Shepard was the one "playing" golf.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
The odds of making two holes-in-one during a round of golf are one in 67 million.
The total number of unique Animal Cracker "animal" shapes.........................18
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
Ratio of Las Vegas slot machines to city residents: 1 for every 8 persons.
The plastic pieces on the end of shoelaces are called Aglets.
I just learned today that if you leave the house with any Rx drugs in anything other than the origional container. It's a FELONY you can get jail time and lose your right to vote! Think of all the little old ladies with drugs in those little daily dose pill boxes. All us diabetic types that carry only the drugs for the day with them.
Someone must shoot BIG BROTHER!
Chip
Then it's no wonder why sometimes voter turn outs are so low from time to time ..................more than half of us are in jail or have lost are our right to vote because of this...........chip anderson said:
I just learned today that if you leave the house with any Rx drugs in anything other than the origional container. It's a FELONY you can get jail time and lose your right to vote! Think of all the little old ladies with drugs in those little daily dose pill boxes. All us diabetic types that carry only the drugs for the day with them.
Someone must shoot BIG BROTHER!
Chip
Good one.:cheers:
Glass breaks at a speed of more than 3,000 miles per hour.
Glass takes over a million years to decompose.
The human body creates and destroys over 15 million red blood cells per second.
If the Sun stopped producing energy today, we wouldn't know about it for ten million years. :D
A Boeing 747 can carry 60,000 gallons of fuel.
It was common for female residents of Florence during the Renaissance to shave their eyebrows.
Fingernails grow 4 times faster than toenails...........
In Iceland,tipping at a restaurant is considered rude.
Speaking of going out or staying home to eat..........the original use of a tablecloth was what we now use napkins for today.
The Continetal Congress met for 27* days and was unable to commit one word to paper for the U.S. Contitiution until
Ben Frankin instituted starting each session with a prayer.
Chip
*Not sure of the exact number of days but it was quite a long time.
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