Fascinating Facts and Trivia

The electric chair was invented by a dentist, as was Candy floss!

Canadians say “sorry” so much that a law was passed in 2009 declaring that an apology can’t be used as evidence of admission to guilt.

There were two AI chatbots created by Facebook to talk to each other, but they were shut down after they started communicating in a language they made for themselves.

Astronaut is a compound word derived from the two Ancient Greek words “Astro” meaning “star” and “naut” meaning “sailor”. So astronaut literally means “star sailor”.

It’s impossible to hum while holding your nose.

You just tested it, didn’t you?

The Statue of Liberty used to be a lighthouse

About a month after the statue’s 1886 dedication, it became a working lighthouse for 16 years, with its torch visible from 24 miles away.

You can see four states from the top of Chicago’s Willis Tower

From the top of the former Sears Tower on a clear day, you can see about 40 to 50 miles away—beyond Illinois and out to Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

(15-03-2021 19:54 )Carl-Gen X Wrote:  It’s impossible to hum while holding your nose.

You just tested it, didn’t you?

I did

Britain’s secret intelligence service once hacked an Al-Qaida website and replaced the bomb instructions with a cupcake recipe.