Useless Quarantine Fact #9 – Greased Lightning!
The movie “High School Musical” was created out of a script that was originally going to be “Grease 3” Grease 3 was going to start Brittney Spears & Justin Timberlake as Danny and Sandy’s kids!
The movie “High School Musical” was created out of a script that was originally going to be “Grease 3” Grease 3 was going to start Brittney Spears & Justin Timberlake as Danny and Sandy’s kids!
“Booby trap” spelled backward is “party boob.”
On average, Americans eat 18 acres of pizza everyday. I am willing to bet it is more than that right now.
The First Breakfast Cereal The first breakfast cereal was a type of concentrated grain cakes called “granula”. “In 1863, at the Danville Sanitarium in Danville, NY, a vegetarian wellness retreat that was popular with health-conscious Gilded Age Americans, Dr. James Caleb Jackson challenged guests more accustomed to beef or pork for breakfast to try his powerful, concentrated grain cakes. “Granula,” as he called it, required soaking overnight to be edible in the morning, and even then wasn’t so appetizing. But…
A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
“Spoonfed” is the longest word in the English language that’s letters are in reverse alphabetical order!
The first vinyl LP was Mendelssohn’s Concerto In E Minor, performed by violinist Nathan Milstein with the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter It was produced on June 21st 1948 For those of you under 30 an LP was the closest thing boomers had to Spotify/iTunes. ?
Contrary to popular belief vanilla was NOT the first flavor of ice cream! One of the earliest recipes for what we now think of as ice cream was in a cookbook titled “Mrs. Mary Eale’s Receipts.” It was for ice cream flavored with cherries, raspberries, currants, or strawberries. There is no evidence that early ice cream makers used vanilla bean or vanilla extract to make the kind of vanilla ice cream that is so popular today.
Useless Quarantine Fact #1 The first publicly available ISP “The World” ever is still in service today, and look like they haven’t updated their website since they opened in 1989! http://theworld.com/
I am going to post a daily Useless Quarantine Fact… something you’d never have time to know or find out if the world weren’t on lock down. Might as well leverage our time, learn something that will in no way improve your life (except maybe your Trivial Pursuit Score), and have some fun! ?