Equus wrote: Canned food was invented almost 100 years before the can opener.
Okay, so how did they open the can?
distance of a light year, (about) 9.46 trillion kilometers
re opening canned food- sword, mace, blacksmiths hammer, but made a mess of the contents. Thats why it took so long to take off
On the other hand, people bought canned food to show their neighbors they had food in the pantry. LOL
cicerone imposter wrote:Equus wrote: Canned food was invented almost 100 years before the can opener.
Okay, so how did they open the can?
Beats me. They must have been getting pretty hungry and frustrated after awhile.
Oh, and the invention of the parachute was 120 years before the invention of the airplane. I guess they wanted to be ready.
I wonder how many experiments it took to perfect the parachute? Don't get too many chances for mistakes.
Yeh, well, they had a lot of parachute testing volunteers- people who were suicidal at not being able to open canned food.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
Four US Presidents were best known by their middle names:
-Stephen Grover Cleveland
-Thomas Woodrow Wilson
-John Calvin Coolidge
-and Ulysses Simpson Grant, whose birth name was Hiram Ulysses Grant
The "S" in Harry S Truman does not stand for anything.
On "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" TV show of the 1960's, the G in Maynard G. Krebbs (played by John Denver of Gilligan's Island fame) stood for 'Walter'.
Oh yes it does. Truman said "All Shet stops here!," and the "S" stuck.
Blaise Pascal invented the hypodermic syringe and the omnibus
Not all animals went in to the Arc 2 by 2.The 'clean' animals went i in 7's but 'unclean' animals went in 2's.
Good one. Speaking of Bible trivia-
David did not kill Goliath with a sling. David knocked him down with the sling, then rushed in and beheaded Goliath with Goliath's own sword.
The famous passage from Isaiah 2:4 "They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks" is countered by Joel 3:10 "Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears"
Jesus is supposed to be the son of God by Mary, yet Luke chapter 3 traces Jesus' lineage back to David and Abraham through Joseph.
Truman said the initial was a compromise between the names of his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp(e) Truman and Solomon Young.
The only Old Testament book not found in the Dead Sea Scrolls is Esther. Esther is also unique in that the word "God" does not appear in it.
This ain't exactly trivia, but it carries on the Bilical theme.
http://www.brookviewcottage.com/miles/cards/noah/noah.html
In ancient Rome (200 B.C.) theater actors had their own guild and were exempt from military service!
In South Korea, you are considered unfit for military service if you have a tattoo. Sorry Popeye.
A2k trivia:
Today is the one year anniversary for wandeljw and the three year anniversary for equus!
Thanks for remembering. I didn't realize. And I forgot to get myself a card- boy am I gonna be mad. Congrats on your anniversary, wandeljw.
I went to a performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's Iolanthe last night- the program had this trivia tidbit: The New York premiere of Iolanthe was the first stage production to use electric lights for illumination.
(1) There was no apple mentioned as what Eve ate (it wasn't the apple from the tree but the "pear" on the ground).
(2) It is little known that Abraham Lincoln was Jewish (he was shot in the temple).
Sorry...
I'd heard that about Lincoln... We had a girl in High School that everybody called "Miss Lincoln", because they all wanted to take a shot at her in the balcony...
