Random Facts.

[bravedave]

On this date in 1773 the Sons of Liberty boarded three British ships and dumped crates of tea into Boston Harbor.

[bravedave]

The Susquehannock tribe inhabited the Susquehanna River areas from southern New York to the Chesapeake Bay. Captain John Smith met them in 1608. He was astonished to find the Susquehannocks were already engaged in trade with French goods and estimated the population of their village to be two thousand.

Their numbers steadily declined as European colonization progressed and other tribes competed for resources. By 1763 only about twenty Susquehannocks remained. That year the Paxton Boys, in response to Pontiac's Rebellion on the western frontier, attacked their village and murdered all they found there.

They were called "Susquehannocks" mainly by the English of Maryland and Virginia (using the Algonquian name meaning "people of the muddy river"). There is no record of what the Susquehannocks called themselves.

[Wino you know]

Penelope Cruz is HOT, HOT, HOT!

[Wino you know]

The first president to actually have an inaguration ball was James Madison in 1809.
Tickets to the event sold for the huge sum of $4.00.

[chippewa]

The first President to be inaugurated on Jan. 20 was FDR, for his second term. Before that, the commencement date was March 4. The next President will be inaugurated on Jan. 21, since 1.20.2013 is a Sunday.

[phjrsaunt]

The elephant is the only animal with four knees.

[bravedave]

The elephant is the only animal with four knees.

No one has ever seen an elephant's low knee.

[phjrsaunt]

The elephant is the only animal with four knees.

No one has ever seen an elephant's low knee.

Ummm...I don't get it.

[bravedave]

The elephant is the only animal with four knees.

No one has ever seen an elephant's low knee.

Ummm...I don't get it.

C'mon. I'm sure you have seen an elephant's high-knee!

[chippewa]

Neil Armstrong was also the first man on Mrs. Armstrong.




oops, that's a Fun Fact, not a random fact. Sorry.

[ParrotHeadDeb]

January 24, 1935

First canned beer goes on sale
Canned beer makes its debut on this day in 1935. In partnership with the American Can Company, the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company delivered 2,000 cans of Krueger's Finest Beer and Krueger's Cream Ale to faithful Krueger drinkers in Richmond, Virginia. Ninety-one percent of the drinkers approved of the canned beer, driving Krueger to give the green light to further production.

By the late 19th century, cans were instrumental in the mass distribution of foodstuffs, but it wasn't until 1909 that the American Can Company made its first attempt to can beer. This was unsuccessful, and the American Can Company would have to wait for the end of Prohibition in the United States before it tried again. Finally in 1933, after two years of research, American Can developed a can that was pressurized and had a special coating to prevent the fizzy beer from chemically reacting with the tin.

The concept of canned beer proved to be a hard sell, but Krueger's overcame its initial reservations and became the first brewer to sell canned beer in the United States. The response was overwhelming. Within three months, over 80 percent of distributors were handling Krueger's canned beer, and Krueger's was eating into the market share of the "big three" national brewers--Anheuser-Busch, Pabst and Schlitz. Competitors soon followed suit, and by the end of 1935, over 200 million cans had been produced and sold.

The purchase of cans, unlike bottles, did not require the consumer to pay a deposit. Cans were also easier to stack, more durable and took less time to chill. As a result, their popularity continued to grow throughout the 1930s, and then exploded during World War II, when U.S. brewers shipped millions of cans of beer to soldiers overseas. After the war, national brewing companies began to take advantage of the mass distribution that cans made possible, and were able to consolidate their power over the once-dominant local breweries, which could not control costs and operations as efficiently as their national counterparts.

Today, canned beer accounts for approximately half of the $20 billion U.S. beer industry. Not all of this comes from the big national brewers: Recently, there has been renewed interest in canning from microbrewers and high-end beer-sellers, who are realizing that cans guarantee purity and taste by preventing light damage and oxidation.

Copied from www.history.com

[luvinlife]

If you are a red sox fan you can relate....... If you mix up Bruce Hurst you get B RUTH CURSE???? WTF.

[ParrotHeadDeb]

January 25, 1971 Charles Manson convicted of the Tate/LaBianca murders.
He is 74 years old now...

[CaptainP]

Mahatma Gahndi's son, Harilal, converted to Islam.

[CaptainP]

The son of RJ Reynolds was an anti-smoking advocate

[CaptainP]

Benjamin Franklin's son was pro-British, and was even named as Royal Governor of New Jersey by the British.

[phjrsaunt]

A snail can sleep for as long as three years at at time.

[Thewino]

Space has more stars than there are grains of sand on all the beaches of planet Earth.

[ParrotHeadDeb]

A short description of the Hawaiian Islands

Before the history of mankind, a great rift opened in the floor of the Pacific Ocean ranging for almost 2,000 miles. Out of this crack throughout the ensuing millions of years poured basalt lava to build up a volcanic mountain chain to the greatest height of 32,000 feet—14,000 feet above sea level, plus 18,000 feet down to the ocean floor.
Although there are many reefs and shoals included in the Hawaiian chain to make it the longest in the world—1,5000 miles from the island of Hawaii northwest to Kure (Ocean) Island—Hawaii is known to the world for eight main islands that cover a radius of 300 miles.

Taken from http://www.hawaii.gov

[bravedave]

Edward Dickinson Baker, an English-born American politician, served as a U.S. Senator from Oregon and as U.S. Army colonel during both the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. Baker was killed in the Battle of Ball's Bluff while leading a Union Army regiment, becoming the only sitting senator to be killed in the Civil War.