Fast Facts
September 14, 2007
The Isle de France, a real cruise liner, was purposefully sunk to provide the climax to the 1960 film “”The Last Voyage.””
The Batmobile used in the Batman TV series got only four miles to the gallon.
“”Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”” used 3,000 specially bred rats.
Medical experts say babies are able to dream in the womb.
A 1923 Listerine mouthwash advertisement introduced the phrase “”Always a bridesmaid, never a bride.””
Chicken pox is so named because the disease is weaker than smallpox.
In 1500, a Swiss pig gelder performed the first successful caesarean section on his wife.
Composer George M. Cohan claimed to be born on the Fourth of July in the patriotic hit “”Yankee Doodle Dandy,”” but he was actually born July 3.
Yahoo was once known as “”Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web.””
Reader’s Digest did not advertise within its pages until 1955.
