FastFacts
October 24, 2006
- The word samba means to rub
navels together.
There are more brown M&Ms in plain M&Ms than in peanut M&Ms.
You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
David Rice Atchison was president of the United States for exactly one day.
Vincent Van Gogh committed suicide while painting “”Wheat Field with Crows.””
Alexander Graham Bell made a talking doll that said “”mama”” when he was a young boy in Scotland. He never telephoned his wife or mother. They were both deaf.
The song “”I Am the Walrus”” by John Lennon was inspired by a two-tone police siren.
On “”Roseanne,”” DJ stood for David Jacob.
Smokey the Bear’s zip code is 20252.
The name for Oz in “”The Wizard of Oz”” was thought up when the author, L. Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw “”A-N”” and “”O-Z,”” hence Oz.
When your sink is full, the little hole that lets the water drain, instead of flowing over the side, is called a porcelator.
In Irish police stations in the 19th century – when public indecency was a serious crime – couples were charged with being “”found under carnal knowledge.”” Police abbreviated it to its initials and called it a F.U.C.K. charge.
