Random Facts
This scientist's notebooks are still radioactive, a full century after her death!
Who is Marie Curie?
Expiration dates are put on bottled water for this reason. Obviously, the water isn't gonna go bad. Duh!
What is because the plastic will start leaching into the liquid?
Pineapples were named after pine cones by this famous explorer. He got a lot of stuff wrong.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This car manufacturer makes the most expensive car in the world.
What is Rolls-Royce ($13 million)?
This state is the only state that borders only one other state.
What is Maine?
One in three divorces filed in 2011 accused this social media website as one of the reasons for the separation.
What is Facebook?
Animals shelters all over America are filled on the day after this holiday. Those pets had a rough night.
What is Independence Day?
This letter shows up in about 11% of English words, making it the most used letter in our language.
What is the letter E?
Water makes different pouring sounds depending on this attribute of the water, which changes it's viscosity.
What is the temperature of the water?
During WWII, the Allied forces dropped over a total of 2.7 million tons of bombs on this country and due to certain defects in their delay timers, around 10 percent of those bombs are still found today. Just sitting there.
What is Germany?
This US president owned a water-surfing car.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
Most hiking markers in the higher elevation mountains are marked with these.
What are dead bodies that are frozen in place?
This movie was feared to be a flop by the studio and the director took a pay cut in order to keep the budget at a mere $8 million. It made $775 million in the 40 years its been around. Disney bought the franchise for $4 billion.
What is Star Wars (Disney bought the franchise for $4 billion last year)?
"Typhoid Mary", an Irish woman named Mary Mallon immigrated to the United States in the 1880's. Though she had no symptoms of typhoid fever, she carried the bacteria and passed it on and infected at least 51 people working at this profession.
What is a cook?
This was the first toy to be advertised on TV.
What is Mr. Potato Head?
This country is home to the largest pyramid in the world. Good luck!
What is Mexico?
This now defunct department store used to offer so-called "kit houses" in their catalog that were shipped on a train. You had to assemble the house yourself using the 75-page instruction book.
Who was Sears (& Roebuck)?
If you were a baby in the 1800's and you cried while teething, your parents might have given you Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, a medicine laced with this, now, very illegal drug.
What is morphine?
2 or 3 teaspoons of the raw version of this spice can induce hallucinations, convulsions, pain, nausea, and paranoia that can last for several days. Actual fatalities are rare, but they have happened.
What is nutmeg?
Nine counties in Maryland, as well as the city of Baltimore, pay a fee called this, that is described as a "user fee charged to property owners for the service of managing the polluted runoff coming from their property."
What is a "Rain Tax"?
We aren't the only ones! This many countires in the world celebrate an Independence Day from British rule.
What is 48?
This is the most widely printed reading material, circulated in 72 countries and usually about 350 pages long.
What is the IKEA catalog?
This is the national animal of Scotland.
What is the unicorn?
This is how many times Pluto has revolved around the Sun since we discovered it in 1930.
What is zero?
In the first Superman comics, Superman did not have this superpower. That came about 30 years later.
What is flight (Leaps tall buildings in a single bound)?