Fun Facts!

The lightning rod was made by Benjamin franklin. one of the founding fathers of the united states.

kangaroos don't fart

Ronald McDonald is called Donald McDonald in japan to take off the clear r sound as it is hard for the Japanese

the Rubik's cube was once called the Hungarian magic cube.

an ostriches eye is bigger than its brain

honey does not spoil! instead, it crystallizes

cellular phones will not give you cancer

Edmund Hillary was the first person to climb mount Everest

the Tuskegee airmen were a group of black military personnel flying planes. zippier solo fighters flew by the slow vulnerable bombers to defend them. even earning the red tails. roscoe brown was credited as the first person to down a jet

speaking of jets, the Nazi jetfighters were the first jets used in combat

Anime evolved alongside the cartoons you are familiar with. Namakura gatana is one of the oldest animes that exists. momotaro: sacred soldiers is the first feature length anime film. though at the time, the anime art style we all are familiar with didn't even exist!

speaking of something familiar not existing, in the golden age of aviation, the big passenger planes we all are familiar with weren't invented yet, and flying was still dangerous. pilots were viewed as death defying heroes. especially Amelia Earhart.

Theodore Roosevelt is actually related to the ww2 and great depression president Franklin d Roosevelt.

the 2 bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were fat man and little boy.

18th president Ulysses s grant was also a civil war general! he also liked to smoke. after the civil war. people gave cigars (or cigarettes) as gifts to grant for his leadership.

believe it or not, the culprits of japan having many earthquakes are the Eurasian plate, north American plate, Filipino plate, and to a lesser extent, pacific plate

speaking of plates, the north American plate also stretches to Russia

want more information? the Juan de fuca plate is the smallest plate

more? Europe and Africa seldom have earthquakes!

there are 3 great gravity clocks, Mexico, japan, and the US state of Florida.

Horace Greeley died 2 months after losing the 1872 election before the votes are cast

the first oranges weren't orange! they were green instead!

FDR was a stamp collector. he collected nearly 1 million stamps!

The creator of the Volkswagen beetle was Ferdinand Porsche. Hitler wanted a peoples car for the 3rd German Reich.

Adolf Hitler wanted to be a painter went he grew up. however, he had little success professionally

the water clock inventors aren't known due to it being old.

the Jim crow laws name is from "Jim crow" character. he was a character used by minstrels.