Knitting was initially a male-only occupation. In fact, when the very first knitting union was established in Paris in 1527, no women were allowed.[9] The oleander is the official flower of the city of Hiroshima. It was the first to bloom again after the explosion of the atomic bomb in...
George H. W. Bush (1924-) was the first serving vice president to be elected president since Martin Van Buren.[12] William Jefferson “Bill” Clinton (1946-) was the first U.S. Democratic president to win re-election since FDR.[12] Abraham Lincoln was the only presidential candidate who...
Alcohol is a lot like sex—90% of the populationreallyenjoys it, and they’re all kinda made uncomfortable by the 10% that doesn’t. We at America Fun Fact of the Day make it our mission to celebrate alcohol and the Americans who drink it. For example, everyone reading this has consum...
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The fact thata board game calledMonopolybecame popular during the Great Depression is ironic in itself, but it’s even more ironic given the game’s backstory. The game’s inventor, Elizabeth J. Magie, first patented it in 1904 as theLandlord’s Gameto teach players about the evils of cap...
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This commonly repeated equation has no basis in fact. There isn't one simple number you can use because humans and dogs age at different rates. A 1-year-old dog is in mid-to-late adolescence, not equivalent to a 7-year-old child. A 2-year-old dog is a young adult. After that, ...
The internet loves fun facts about Colonel Sanders. Yes, he was a real man named Harland Sanders. And yes, he really was a colonel. (Well, kind of.) But there’s one fun fact about everybody’s favorite chicken salesman that simply isn’t true. Despite what you may have read online...
he came into office as the U.S. was mired in the Great Depression and was in his third term when the U.S. enteredWorld War IIin 1941. Roosevelt, who had been stricken with polio in 1921, was largely confined to a wheelchair or leg braces as president, a fact rarely shared with the...
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