robbokris wrote:
Can be about literally anything
uh-oh...
* Acnestasis is the part of your back you can't reach when you try to scratch it.
* The proper name for the piano is pianoforte because it was the first keyboard instrument in Western music that could be played dynamically ("piano" for "soft" and "forte" for "loud").
* A dolphin can use the hemisphere's of its brain independently of each other, allowing one hemisphere to sleep while the other remains active.
* Pinto beans have the highest fiber content of any legume.
* Adolf Hitler had one testicle.
* Most of the Brazil nuts purchased in the US came from Paraguay.
* Toll House chocolate chip cookies were invented when the proprietress of the Toll House Inn in PA tried making chocolate cookies, but was disappointed when the chocolate did not melt throughout the cookie during baking, instead producing a cookie with pieces of chocolate in it.
* The tread pattern on a tire is actually a very efficient pumping mechanism designed to move water away so the tire can contact the ground.
* What we now call the diesel engine was originally designed to run on vegetable oil until it was discovered that it could also run on a by-product of the gasoline manufacturing process (diesel fuel).
* There are three words in the English language that do not have proper rhymes: orange, purple, and silver.
* Richard Hertz, the founder of Hertz Rent-A-Car, had established a taxi company in Chicago. He commissioned a study by Northwestern University to find out what color was the most visible from a distance. The result: yellow. Thus, the prevalence of the color yellow among taxi cabs.
* The US Secret Service got its name because its mission at the time of its founding, combating counterfeiters, was thought to be so dangerous that the identities of its agents were kept secret.
I better stop now...