Interesting Facts

The Q in Q-tips stands for quality. They were originally called Baby Gays.

During the year 1881, three men served as President of the United States: Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield and Chester A. Arthur.

Invented in the 1940s in Tennessee, Mountain Dew was meant to be mixed with whisky. In fact, its bottles were designed to look like moonshine, and the original Mountain Dew labels featured outhouses, stills, and hay-chewing yokels.

The hole in your shirt that you put your arm through is called an armsaye.

Route 66, westbound from Albuquerque, started out as a camel trail.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were the only two men who signed the Declaration of Independence who also went on to become President of the United States.

Ice Cream was served to new arrivals at Ellis Island. But because most people hadn’t encountered it before, they simply figured it was butter and spread it on their toast.

By law, French workers get at least 30 paid vacation days each year.  

Al Gore and actor Tommy Lee Jones were college roommates.

The title of the Paul Simon song “Mother and Child Reunion,” came from a chicken-and-egg dish that appeared on a Chinese restaurant menu in NYC.

Due to the “naughty” dancing of the can-can girls, and the scantily clad models on 1800s French postcards, the British equated anything risqué with France. In fact, that’s how the phrase “pardon my French” entered the vernacular.