Tuesday, September 5, 2017

STRANGE, ODD OR MERELY INTERESTING THINGS: PART II


- The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

- Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.

- If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??)

- Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

- The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

- The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

- The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

- The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

- Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.

- By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. Who wants to try?

- The first and last men to die building the Hoover Dam were related (father and son).

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