"Did you know?" Random TidBits and Facts!

In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program (played by Jeff Goldblum)is in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake, California. His partner suggests Chuck Yeager as a good astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to badmouth Yeager claiming they need someone who went to college. During the conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender who is standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed low in the movie credits as 'Fred.'
 
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/twx communications)
 
When the Black Death swept across England one theory was that cats caused the plague. Thousands were slaughtered. Ironically, those that kept their cats were less affected, because they kept their houses clear of the real culprits, rats.
 
There are only four words in the English language which end in
"-dous" tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and hazardous.
 
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired"
 
Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.
 
MICHIGAN - They take their milkshakes pretty seriously in Detroit. When Alfred Pointer and his wife complained about a watery milkshake they received from the drive through of a McDonald's restaurant, the attendant suggested Mr. Pointer come inside for a refund. There he was allegedly beaten by three employees. The couple has filed a $100 million lawsuit against McDonald's Corp. and the owners of the franchise. [If they get that upset over milkshakes in Detroit, I wonder what they would have done to him if he had said Chefs suck?]
 
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper
left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a
spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
 
According to the federal Center for Substance Abuse prevention, "For kids under twenty-one, there is no difference between alcohol and other drug use and abuse." Incredibly, it makes no distinction between a self-reliant 20 year old toasting his love at their wedding reception with a sip of champagne and a drug-addicted 20 year old doing crack cocaine!
 
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the
creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N,
and O-Z, hence "Oz."
 
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
 
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