Did you know...useless facts/information

Americans spend approximately $25 billion each year on beer.

 

According to researchers at the National Weight Control Registry (NWCR), strategies that contribute to weight loss success are eating a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet, monitoring food intake and body weight, and maintaining high levels of physical activity.

 

The first ring donuts were produced in 1847 by a 15 year old baker's apprentice, Hanson Gregory, who knocked the soggy center out of a fried doughnut.

 

The speed of light traveling through a metal "Venetian blind" is fixed by the size of the gaps, not by the material, according to calculations, which might be useful for optical devices. In the "waveguide" mode, light travels along the blind (top, vertical lines show fields in gaps) and creates almost the same external magnetic fields generated by light traveling through a transparent slab with a very low light speed (bottom).

 

The hamburger was invented in 1900 by Louis Lassen. He ground beef, broiled it, and served it between two pieces of toast.

 

For a very brief time in 1964, it seemed that the biggest challenger to the Beatles' phenomenon was the Dave Clark Five.

 

In M&M candies, the letters stand for Mars and Murrie, the developers of the candy in 1941.

 

A bear charges at high speed, ears flat, on all four legs, low to the ground.

 

Wrigley's promoted their new spearmint-flavored chewing gum in 1915 by mailing 4 sample sticks to each of the 1.5 million names listed in US telephone books.

 

Andy Warhol began as a commercial illustrator

 

Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.

 

Alligators hunt mainly at night when the temperatures rise between April and October(northern hemisphhere)

 

The rock music video channel MTV made its debut in 1981.

 

ra's al ghul mean sthe demon head
poison ivy was originally a good guy in the suicide squad
solomon grundy is on the moon because superman is a cock
batman beyond is set in one of the alternate universes that was created in "the crisis of infinite earths"
the current spectre is hal jordan, originally a green lantern

 

The first issue of People Magazine, in 1974, cost 35 cents and featured actress Mia Farrow on the cover.

 

What are species? Species in Latin merely means "kind" and so species in an elementary sense are different kinds of organisms.

 

There are 11 points on the collar around Kermit the Frog's neck.

 

Quartz is the most abundant mineral on Earth
(about 12% vol.).

 

logans run won best special effects the year before a new hope

 

Elvis Presley made his first appearance on national television in 1956. He sang Blue Suede Shoes and Heartbreak Hotel on "The Dorsey Brothers Show."