Did you know that:
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
Tokyo has had 24 recorded instances of people either killed or receiving serious
skull fractures while bowing to each other with the traditional Japanese greeting.
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than it does through the air.
Blue and white are the most common school colors.
Did you know that:
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House. Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.
Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.
Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners.
Both successors were named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born! in 1839. I was corrected on this and he was born on 1838
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.
Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Kennedy.' I was corrected on this and the theater was named Ford at the time of the assassination. Thanks H.!
Kennedy was shot in a car called 'Lincoln.'
Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.
Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
And here's the kicker...
A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.
Lincoln and Kennedy
Don't this little part of US history make you go h-m-m-m?
Did you know:The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
The first known marketer of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
In a normal lifetime an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.
The Himalayas cover one-tenth of the Earth's surface.
Did you know that:
Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States. Long Beach, WA
A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.
9
out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Joseph Swan
did. Edison just refined it.
The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas.
Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.