3 Facts/Stories of the Day

[Perdita]

1. In the 19th century, it was common practice for a Japanese woman to dye their teeth black. They believed
that this enhanced sex appeal and maintained healthier teeth.

2. Thursday is named after the old Nordic god, Thor. He made thunder when traveling across the skies in his chariot
pulled by male goats. They would run so fast that their hooves created sparks of lightening.

3. Lightning typically has a temperature of about 30,000degrees centigrade (five times hotter than the surface of
the sun!)

[Perdita]

1. Weird wedding ritual - Movie star Joan Crawford would change over all the toilet seats in her house whenever
she married a new husband. She married 4 times

2. In August 1999, Lori Lynn Lomeli set a record by spinning 82 Hula Hoops at the same time for three full
revolutions.

3. In Empire, California, 400+ copies of Red Riding Hood were removed from classrooms because this classic version
recounts that the little girl took a bottle of wine to her grandmother.

[Perdita]

1. A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine

2. The words "abstemioius," and "facetious" both have all the five vowels in them in order

3. French soldiers during World War I had the nickname "poilu" which translates to "hairy one."

[Perdita]

1. Pepsi became the first foreign consumer product to be sold in the Soviet Union.

2. Ken doll was named after the son of Mattel founders Ruth and Elliot Handler.

3. Nearly half the heat which your body loses is lost through the top of your head.

[Perdita]

1. The melting point of cocoa butter is just below the human body temperature -- which is why it literally melts in
your mouth.

2. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

3. Bamboo, the world's tallest grass, has been recorded as growing as high as 130 feet. This plant has also been
known to grow up to 4 feet in a 24 hr. period!

[Perdita]

1. Mexico City boasts the world's largest taxi fleet with over sixty thousand taxis running every day.

2. Kermit the Frog was named after Kermit Scott, a childhood friend of creator Jim Henson, who became a professor of
philosophy at Purdue University.

3. In 1926, women were banned from competing in marathons because it was believed it caused infertility.

[Perdita]

1. It's against the law to leave your house in Thailand if you're not wearing underwear.

2. Centuries ago in India, a person could get their nose chopped off for breaking the law.

3. Citronella, Catnip, Rosemary and Marigolds are 4 plants that will keep mosquitoes away and every plant in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA is edible.

[Perdita]

1. The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.

2. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the man who designed the Eiffel Tower, also designed the inner structure of the Statue of
Liberty in New York Harbour.

3. In Hershey, Pennsylvania, the streetlights along "Chocolate Avenue" are in the shape of Hershey Kisses.

[Perdita]

1. The first modern dishwashing machine was invented by wealthy American socialite Josephine Cochrane in 1886.
She invented it so her servants would stop chipping her china.

2. There is enough fuel in a full tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car four times around the world.

3. The titan arum flower is the largest flower in the world and gives off a horrible odor that smells like rotting
flesh when it blooms.

[Perdita]

1. "Hello" wasn't always the first thing said over the phone. The first operating phone service was esatblished
in 1878 and the formal greeting back then was "ahoy"

2. The Jalapeno pepper was named after the town of Jalapa in Mexico, but it is no longer commercially grown there.

3. China is the world's oldest known continuous civilization.