Did You Know? 3.0

Here are: Version 1 and Version 2.

Hot Dogs: Exposed!

Okay. . .I'm sure you've all heard the warning "If you knew how hot dogs were made, you'd never eat another one!". Well, here ya go:

38 Years Ago

In honor of my wife's birthday, here are some notable events from the year she was born, 1970:

January 5 - The first episode of All My Children is broadcast on the ABC television network.



March 25 - The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight (700 mph/1127 km/h).

April 1 - President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, banning cigarette television advertisements in the United States.



April 1 - American Motors Corporation introduces the Gremlin.



April 10 - Paul McCartney announces that the Beatles have disbanded, while at the same press conference, announcing the release of his first solo album.

April 22 - The first Earth Day is celebrated in the U.S.

May 4 - Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed and nine wounded by Ohio State National Guardsmen at a protest against the incursion into Cambodia.



May 9 - In Washington, D.C., 100,000 people demonstrate against the Vietnam War.

June 10 - U.S. President Richard Nixon signs a measure lowering the voting age to 18.

September 11 - The Ford Pinto is introduced.



September 13 - The first New York City Marathon begins.

September 18 - Jimi Hendrix dies from choking on his own vomit while unconscious due to a barbiturate overdose in London.



October 4 - Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 27.



October 5 - The Public Broadcasting Service begins broadcasting.

October 26 - Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.



October 28 - Gary Gabelich drives the rocket-powered Blue Flame to an official world land speed record of 622.287 mph (1,001.452863 km/h) on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The record, the first above 1,000 km/h, stands for nearly 13 years.

November 3 - Democrats sweep the U.S. Congressional midterm elections; Ronald Reagan is reelected governor of California; Jimmy Carter is elected governor of Georgia.

December 23 - The North Tower of the World Trade Center is topped out at 1,368 feet, making it the tallest building in the world.

Unnecessary knowledge

1 - 50% of female polar bears also have a penis.

2 - American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.

3 - Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

4 - An adult giraffe’s kick is so powerful that it can decapitate a lion.

5 - The longest word in the English language, with all of the letters in alphabetical order is “Almost”.

6 - In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.

7 - The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

8 - 75% of people will believe any made up statistic.

9 - The brain continues sending electrical wave signals for 37 hours after death.

10 - Every year approximately 2,500 left-handed people are killed by using object or machinery designed for right-handed people.

11 - Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.

12 - Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

13 - During their periods womens middle fingers shrink. No one knows why.

14 - A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

15 - In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.

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The Cheesy Rock Ballads Quiz

You know them from the dentist's office, high school dances, and possibly even the shower stall, but do you know who actually sings these heart-wrenching numbers? Match the saccharine sweet love song to the stars willing to put their hearts on the line. Oh, and if the quiz comes across a little easy, that's intentional. Love hurts, but that doesn't mean quizzes on love songs have to. Click the pic to take the quiz:

The Facts of Life

Some interesting facts:

20th Century food invention timeline...

The last century, by food introduction, by year;

1900, Chiclets gum
1900, cotton candy
1900, Hershey's chocolate bar
1901, instant coffee
1902, Barnum's Animal Crackers
1902, Karo corn syrup
1902, Pepsi
1903, Best Foods
1903, canned tuna
1903, Sanka
1903, Sunshine Biscuit Company
1904, banana split
1904, Campbell's Kids introduced
1904, Campbell's Pork and Beans
1904, Canada Dry ginger ale
1904, Dr. Pepper
1904, peanut butter
1904, popcorn
1905, Epsicle (later Popsicle)
1905, Holly Sugar
1905, Royal Crown cola
1906, A-1 Sauce
1906, bouillon cube
1906, Kellogg's Corn Flakes
1907, Hershey's kiss
1908, Dixie cup
1908, electric toaster
1908, monosodium glutamate isolated
1909, Lipton tea
1909, Melitta drip coffeemaker
1909, puffed wheat and rice (Quaker)
1909, Tillamook cheese

The 1910s

1910, tea bag
1911, Crisco
1911, Mazola corn oil
1912, Cracker Jack puts in a prize
1912, hamburger buns
1912, Hellmann's mayonnaise
1912, Life Savers
1912, Lorna Doone cookies
1912, Morton table salt
1912, Ocean Spray cranberry sauce
1912, Vitamins
1912, Whitman's Sampler
1913, Campbell's cream of celery
1913, Oreo cookie
1913, Peppermint Life Savers
1914, Doublemint gum
1914, fruit cocktail
1914, Morton Salt girl
1915, processed cheese
1915, Pyrex bakeware
1916, fortune cookie
1916, Kellogg's All-Bran cereal
1916, Mr. Peanut
1916, Orange Crush
1917, Clark Bar
1917, Moon Pie
1918, Campbell's vegetable beef
1918, Contadina tomato sauce
1918, French dip sandwich
1918, Welch's first jam, Grapelade
1919, Fridgidaire
1919, Konabar, Peter Paul
1919, Malt-O-Meal
1919, Sunkist oranges

The 1920s

1920, Baby Ruth
1920, boysenberry
1920, Good Humor bar
1920, La Choy Food Products
1920, Wonder Bread
1921, Betty Crocker
1921, Eskimo Pie
1921, Hershey kisses get blue & white streamer
1921, hybrid corn
1921, iodized salt
1921, Land O' Lakes butter
1921, Mounds bar
1921, Oh Henry!
1921, Sioux Bee Honey
1921, White Castle hamburger chain
1921, Wonderbread
1921, Wrigley's gum
1922, A&W Root Beer
1922, Charleston Chew candy
1922, Almond Rocha
1923, Milky Way bar
1923, Reese's Peanut Butter Cup
1923, Welch's grape jelly
1924, Bit-O-Honey candy
1924, Caesar salad
1924, Dum Dum sucker
1924, fruit-flavored Life Savers
1924, packaged sliced bacon (Oscar Mayer)
1924, Wheaties
1925, Green Giant canned peas
1925, Mr. Goodbar
1925, Wesson oil
1926, Cobb Salad
1926, Hormel canned ham
1926, Milk Duds
1926, Orange Julius
1927, Gerber baby food
1927, homogenized milk
1927, Kool-Aid
1927, Lenders bagels
1927, Mike & Ike
1927, Wonder Bread
1927, Welch-ade
1928, broccoli introduced to U.S.
1928, Butterfinger
1928, Peter Pan peanut butter
1928, Nabisco shredded wheat
1928, Progresso Foods
1928, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
1928, Rice Krispies
1928, Velveeta cheese
1929, Colombo yogurt
1929, Karmelkorn
1929, Klondike bar
1929, Libby canned pumpkin
1929, Lithiated Lemon (later 7-Up)
1929, Niblets corn
1929, Oscar Mayer weiner
1929, Po' Boy sandwich
1929, Popeye the Sailor
1929, Ruby grapefruit

The 1930s

1930, Birds Eye Frosted Foods
1930, Bisquick
1930, Jiffy Biscuit Mix
1930, Lime Jell-O
1930, Mott's Apple Sauce
1930, Snickers
1930, Toll House cookies
1930, Twinkies
1930, sliced Wonder Bread
1931, Alka-Seltzer
1931, Beech-Nut baby food
1931, Cryst-O-Mint Life Savers
1931, dehydrated onion
1931, The Joy of Cooking, Irma S. Rombauer
1931, Reed's Butterscotch candy
1931, Tootsie Pop
1932, 3 Musketeers bar
1932, bagel
1932, corn chips
1932, Heath bar
1932, Jell-O chocolate pudding
1932, Skippy peanut butter
1933, Budweiser Clydesdales
1933, canned pineapple juice
1933, Prohibition ends
1933, Sunsweet prune juice
1933, V8 Juice
1933, Waldorf salad
1934, Campbell's chicken noodle
1934, Campbell's cream of mushroom
1934, Ritz crackers
1934, Sugar Daddy
1935, 5 flavors Life Savers
1935, Adolph's Meat Tenderizer
1935, Friendly Ice Cream restaurant
1935, Realemon lemon juice
1935, Royal Crown cola
1935, Sugar Babies
1936, Dom Pérignon champagne
1936, Elsie the Cow (Borden)
1936, 5th Avenue bar
1936, Girl Scout cookies
1936, Mars Bar
1936, Waring blender
1937, A & P Supermarket
1937, Good 'n Plenty
1937, Kit Kat bar
1937, Kix cereal
1937, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese Dinner
1937, Pepperidge Farm Bread
1937, Ragu Spaghetti Sauce
1937, Rolo candy
1937, shopping cart
1937, Smarties
1937, Spam
1938, Bumble Bee tuna
1938, Hershey Krackel bar
1938, Lawry's Seasoned Salt
1938, Mott's apple juice
1938, Nescafé, first instant coffee
1938, Nestlé Crunch bar
1938, Teflon
1939, food stamps
1939, Lay's potato chips
1939, Nestlé chocolate chip
1939, pressure cooker
1939, Sara Lee cheese cake

The 1940s

1940, cellophane-wrapped meat
1940, Dairy Queen
1940, McDonald's
1940, Rain-Blo gum ball
1940, York Peppermint Patty
1941, Cheerioats (renamed Cheerios in 1946)
1941, garbage disposal
1941, M&M's Plain chocolate candies
1942, Dannon yogurt
1942, Kellogg's Raisin Bran
1942, Sunbeam bread
1944, Chiquita banana jingle
1945, Constant Comment tea
1945, Fleischmann's Active Dry Yeast
1945, Junior Mints
1945, Tupperware
1946, French's Instant Potatoes
1946, Minute Maid frozen o.j.
1946, Mrs. Paul's frozen food
1946, Ragu pasta sauce
1946, Tupperware
1947, Almond Joy
1947, aluminum foil
1947, cake mix
1947, Kraft singles
1947, Minute Maid o.j. concentrate
1947, Reddi-Wip
1948, Baskin-Robbins
1948, Nestle's Quik
1948, V-8 juice
1949, electric dishwasher
1949, Jolly Rancher candy
1949, Junior Mints
1949, Minute Rice
1949, Pillsbury Bake-Off
1949, Whoppers malted milk balls
1949, violet M&Ms replaced with tan

The 1950s

1950, Ball-O-Fire gumball
1950, cyclamates
1950, Dunkin' Donuts
1950, Green Giant Co.
1950, Sugar Pops cereal
1951, Ore-Ida Foods
1951, Swanson beef, chicken,turkey pot pies
1951, Tropicana juice
1952, fish sticks
1952, Kellogg's Frosted Flakes
1952, Lipton onion soup mix
1952, No-cal Ginger Ale,1st sugar-free soft drink
1952, Pez comes to the U.S.
1952, Saran Wrap
1953, Cheez Whiz
1953, Danny's Donuts opens (became Denny's in 1959)
1953, Howdy Doody tumbler from Welch's
1953, Irish coffee invented in S.F.'s Buena Vista Cafe
1953, Lawry's spaghetti sauce
1953, Sugar Smacks cereal
1953, Swanson TV dinner
1954, Burger King
1954, Butterball turkey
1954, colored appliance (G.E.)
1954, M&M's Peanut Candies
1954, Reddi-wip
1954, Shakey's pizza opens
1954, Trix
1955, Del Monte stewed tomatoes
1955, Kentucky Fried Chicken
1955, McDonald's
1955, Special K cereal
1956, Imperial margarine
1957, Sweet'n Low
1958, aluminum beverage can (Coors)
1958, Cocoa Krispies, Kellogg
1958, Cocoa Puffs, General Mills
1958, Green Giant canned beans
1958, Internation House of Pancakes
1958, Jif Peanut Butter
1958, Lipton Instant Tea
1958, Pizza Hut (Wichita, KS)
1958, Rice-a-Roni
1958, Williams-Sonoma opens
1959, Haagen-Dazs ice cream
1959, Frosty O's, General Mills

The 1960s

1960, Coffee Rich non-dairy creamer
1960, Dominoes pizza (Detroit)
1960, Granny Smith apple imported to U.S.
1960, red, green, & yellow M&M's
1960, Sprite
1961, Coffee-Mate non-dairy creamer
1961, Green Giant frozen vegetables
1961, Mrs. Butterworth's Syrup
1961, Total cereal, General Mills
1961, Charlie the Tuna (Starkist)
1961, kiwifruit
1961, Sprite
1962, Bridgford frozen bread dough
1962, Diet-Rite cola
1962, Pet-Ritz Frozen Pie Crust
1962, Taco Bell
1963, Chips Ahoy! cookies
1963, Chiquita banana blue sticker
1963, Cremora non-dairy creamer
1963, Fruit Loops
1963, self-cleaning oven
1963, Tab cola
1963, "The French Chef" debuts
1963, Weight Watchers founded
1964, Kellogg's Pop-Tarts
1964, nachos
1965, Cool Whip
1965, Gatorade
1965, Poppin' Fresh, Pillsbury Doughboy
1965, SpaghettiOs
1965, Tang
1966, Fresca
1967, Bugles
1968, McDonald's Big Mac
1969, Bac-Os
1969, Diet 7-Up
1969, sugarless gum

The 1970s

1970, Eggo waffles
1970, Hamburger Helper
1971, canned A&W Root Beer
1971, Jell-O pudding treat
1971, Rolos candy
1971, smoked Spam
1971, Starbucks
1972, Egg McMuffin
1972, Top Ramen
1972, Tuna Helper
1973, Cuisinart food processor
1973, Honey Maid cinnamon grahams
1976, Jelly Belly
1976, orange M&M's
1977, McDonald's Happy Meal
1977, Yoplait yogurt
1978, Reese's Pieces

The 1980s

1981, aspartame
1981, Prego spaghetti sauce
1981, Stouffer's Lean Cuisine
1982, Diet Coke
1982, Equal
1983, Nutrasweet
1984, Ben & Jerry's ice cream
1985, Cherry Coke
1985, New Coke
1985, Pop Secret microwave popcorn
1986, Classic Coke
1987, Cherry 7-Up
1987, Nestlé Alpine White chocolate bar
1987, soy milk
1989, Symphony candy bar

The 1990s

1990, Campbell's cream of broccoli soup
1990, dolphin-safe tuna
1990, Hershey's kisses with almonds
1990, Jamba Juice
1992, Crystal Pepsi
1992, Spam Lite
1993, The Food Network
1993, Hershey's Hugs
1995, blue M&Ms
1996, Olestra
1998, Jell-O Museum, Rochester, NY
1998, Pepsi One
1998, Wow potato chips
1999, Benecol
1999, Hershey's Bites
1999, Incredibles, push-up food

Congratulations! You just experienced 100 years of food innovations - are you hungry? =)

41 Amazing Money Facts

Do you think you know a lot about money? Maybe you do. Maybe you don't. But let's see if any of the following facts are in any way surprising to you:

1. More of our fantasies are about money... than sex.

2.If we could have any luxury in the world (and money didn't matter) more of us would choose to spend money on a butler and a maid than anything else.

3. Money is the leading cause of disagreements in marriages.

4. 65% of Americans would live on a deserted island all by themselves for an entire year for $1,000,000.

5. For $10,000,000 most of us would do almost ANYTHING! Including abandoning our family and friends and our church. A very high percentage of us would, for that same amount of money, change our race or sex. And, 1 in every 14, would even murder someone for ten million bucks.What's really strange about this is, the statistics remain the same whether it's ten million dollars all the way down to three million. For three million bucks, most of us would do the same horrible things we would do for ten million. But, guess what? Few of us would do these things for a "measly" two million.

6. 92% of us would rather be rich than find the love of our lives.

7. Here's a weighty one: Money (or the lack thereof) is the biggest stress inducer in the lives of Americans. We worry more about money than our marriages, our health, or even who's going to win the Superbowl Game or come out on top in the latest Survivor TV show.

8. If you get your money out of a Hitachi ATM machine in Japan, it will be laundered. The way they do it is, they briefly press the bills between rollers at high enough temperatures to kill most bacteria.

9. Women have very fixed ideas on how much they are willing to spend on a bra. 38.3% of women won't spend $30 for a bra. 28.4% won't spend $50. 10% would pay as much as $75. And, only 3.5% would shell out $100. But, you know what? Almost 20% of women say they would pay almost anything for a bra. This is because they consider (and I guess so do a few men) that the contents of what those bras are encasing is of extremely high-value.

10. Nearly half of the people who sell their houses with furniture included will take all the light bulbs out of all the lamps when they vacate the premises.

11. Most people won't bend over to pick up money lying on the sidewalk unless it's at least a dollar.

12. Most Americans think pennies are a pain in the ass and the U.S. Mint should stop making them.

13. There is about 405 billion dollars in circulation. Only 32 million of that amount is counterfeit. That means, the percentage of counterfeit money in America is .0079%. And, $20 bills are more often counterfeited than $100 bills.

14. Do people care if their bills are crisp? Indeed, they do. Fresh, crisp, clean bills are considered much more valuable than those which are old, wrinkled and dirty.
I once sent a 'dollar bill thank you' letter to a guy who sent a sincere letter back to me bitching the free $1 bill I sent him was wrinkled instead of crisp as I had described in the letter.

15. Let's flip a coin and try to guess whether it will come up heads or tails. Three times as many people guess 'heads' than 'tails'.

16. Here's one I personally think really sucks: One out of every four Americans believe their best chance of getting rich is by playing the lottery.

17. How about this one for a shocking fact: 5% of lottery ticket buyers buy 51% of all tickets sold. (Trust me, none of these people belong to the "Einsteins of America Society".)

18. A staggering 74% of us are influenced by how much we can win in a lottery as opposed to the odds of us winning.

19. That's a good thing for the Government because the odds of winning a lottery jackpot are about 10 million to 1.

20. A person who drives 10 miles to buy a lottery ticket is 3 times more likely to be killed in a car accident while driving to buy the ticket... than... he is to win the jackpot.

21. Sunday newspaper coupon inserts are the second-most read section of the paper, after the front page.

22. Few people know it but, you can buy single-disease insurance.

23. Only 6% of people in America regularly buy clothes tailor made just for them.

24. Here's one that's really important: 63% of us decide NOT to buy a product advertised on the Internet... because... we think the shipping and handling charges add too much to the order.

25. Eight times as many Americans would rather use an ATM than deal with a real live teller.

26. This one's going to blow your mind: 83% of Americans still pay with checks instead of credit cards!

27. Almost 30% of us say we would need 3 million smackaroos to feel rich. This ties in with the fact most of us would do anything for as little as $3 million... but... not nearly as many of us would do those identical things for a measly $2 million. (Hey, here's your chance to take advantage of that situation. If you only want to pay $2 million to have something done, ask me if I'll do it. The chances are, believe it or not, I WILL DO IT.)

28. Here's another fact which is really, really important: 80% of Americans say giving personal information (especially their credit card information) over the Internet scares the living shit out of them.

29. Two-thirds of Americans say they wouldn't let their spouse spend the night and have sex with another person for a million dollars. Many of these people are liars. There's a big difference being asked if they would do it for a million dollars... as opposed to... handing them a paper sack containing the million dollars and simply saying, "Here, you can have this if you'll let me sleep with your sweetie tonight."

30. The average wedding in America costs a staggering $20,000.00.

31. More than one-third of American women consider money more important than good sex to the success of a marriage.

32. According to Employee Benefits Research Institute 96% of all people who have jobs right now won't be eligible for their full Social Security benefits when they reach age 65.

33. When it comes to houses, more than anything else, people want a state-of-the-art kitchen.

34. When people shop for a car, what they want more than anything else is reliability for the best possible price.

35. One of the best ways to raise money for a charity is to have a free dinner for a lot of people and have an empty envelope tucked under their plate... for the express purpose... of making whatever size donation they want.

36. People tip more on sunny days than they do on dreary days.

37. More than 80,000,000 people call the I.R.S. Information Hotline phone number every year. One-third of those calls go unanswered. And, according to the Treasury Department itself, 47% of the answers the 'get-through' callers receive are incorrect.

38. Almost two out of three people have modified their financial behavior because of their fears.

39. Almost three times as many people who live in the South worry about losing their jobs as compared to people who live in the Midwest.

40. Which would you rather do: Shop till you drop... or... have great sex? For men, this is a no-brainer. However, more women would actually rather have an unlimited shopping spree than spend a weekend with a fabulous lover. In fact, the #1 favorite fantasy of women is to have a blank check to shop at their favorite store. The favorite fantasy of men (at least in my opinion) is what we would like to DO to the sales girl... rather than... what we would like to buy from her.

41. You can make a lot of money, suggesting domain names. Yes, it's true.

Note: Calloway (Cheesy video, but the REAL tune)

Strange Little Facts

Can you guess which of the following are True or False?

1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.

3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.

4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.

5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!

6. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.

7. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.

9. The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

11. The average housefly lives for one month.

12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.

14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.

15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.

16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.

17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.

18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.

19. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."

20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.

21. Most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.

22. Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.

23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.

24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.

25. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.

26. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.

All of the above are supposedly true!