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Myers Motors produced a car specifically for Domino’s Pizza. Two models were produced: the original “jelly bean” model and then a hatchback model, which was nicknamed “pizza butt” because it was designed for use by Domino’s Pizza.
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Johannes Kepler wrote the world’s first genuine science fiction in 1609. The novel advanced a Copernican model of the universe, described gravity decades before Newton, envisioned speech synthesis centuries before computers, and presaged space travel three hundred years before the Moon landing.
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In Italy during the 16th century music was engraved on knives so guests could sing together after they ate. Each side of the blade has musical notations and each knife represents one part for a singer. So, a complete set of knives actually come together to create a harmonious chorus.
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In pre-20th century European culture, red hair was commonly identified as the distinguishing negative Jewish trait. During the Spanish Inquisition, all those with red hair were identified as Jewish; and writers from Shakespeare to Dickens would identify Jewish characters by giving them red hair.
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14 cargo ships were stranded in the Suez Canal for 8 years, whose crews all decided to form a micronation. One ship served as a hospital; another, a movie theater. On Sundays, the German Nordwind hosted “church” services. “We call it church,” Captain Paul Wall told the Los Angeles Times in 1969. “But actually it […]
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Evidence suggests that sloths grow algae in their fur and then eat it. This algae-farming is thought to be aided by moths that live in the fur, and whose growth the sloth actively promotes.
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Audie Murphy, one of the most decorated combat soldiers of WW2, earned every combat award available from the U.S. Army, as well as French and Belgian awards for heroism, went on to have an acting career after the war and ended up starring as himself in a movie about his own wartime heroics.
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A 2004 study found that pregnant women who ate lots of chocolate had reduced prenatal stress, and their babies at 6 months old had a more agreeable temperament than pregnant women who ate no chocolate.
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The Republic of Vermont, an independent republic, lasted from 1777 to 1791. After breaking away from Quebec, Vermont fought with the Americans against the British in the Revolutionary War, and was admitted to the union as a counterweight to the slave state of Kentucky.
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Greenland got its name in 986 AD from the explorer Erik the Red‘s attempt to lure settlers to the ice-covered island: “it would induce settlers to go there, if the land had a good name”.
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