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Rhode Island was the first state to require a driver's test.
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William Randolph Hearst had hired Adolf Hitler to write opinion columns for his newspaper, but fired him for continually missing his deadlines.
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For a time, Walt Whitman's brain resided at the Wistar Institute, a University of Pennsylvania facility, although it was reportedly discarded after a research assistant dropped it.
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The white space between the capital E and the lowercase X in the FedEx logo forms a little arrow.
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Alexander the Great was embalmed in honey.
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Kleenex tissues were originally developed as gas-mask filters during World War I.
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The first message transmitted over the Internet (then known as ARPANet) was "LOGIN," although on the first try, it crashed on the G.
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The world's largest known pyramid is not in Egypt; it is the Great White Pyramid in China.
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Due to years of unregulated oil dumping, Ohio's Cuyahoga River became a combustible waterway that ignited four times — in 1949, 1951, 1952 and 1969.
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Surprisingly, the first Mickey Mouse cartoon was not the much-celebrated "Steamboat Willie," but rather a short titled "Plane Crazy," penned by Walt Disney's partner Ub Iwerks. The second was "Galloping Gaucho." "Steamboat Willie" appeared third, but was the first to use synchronized sound. |
