December 2009
76 posts
The 8th most popular search term on Google.co.uk...
Brits were Googling Google. Dumb.
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November 2009
41 posts
The first "Black Friday" referred to a financial...
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In terms of sales, Black Friday is rarely the...
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The term Black Friday was first coined in 1966 by...
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Benjamin Franklin wanted the national bird to be a...
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For many U.S. citizens, Thanksgiving without football is as unthinkable as the Fourth of July without fireworks.
NBC Radio broadcast the first national Thanksgiving Day game in 1934, when the Detroit Lions hosted the Chicago Bears.
Except for a respite during World War II, the Lions have played—usually badly—every Thanksgiving Day since.
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The Plymouth Pilgrims dined with the Wampanoag...
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Thomas Jefferson thought the concept of...
Fuck you Jefferson. Fuck you.
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Americans feast on 535 million pounds of turkey on...
fatties.
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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Fun Facts
nickmcglynn:
After the first parade in 1927, the balloons were released.
When the balloons reached the skyline they burst with a bang.
In 1928, the balloons were redesigned to last for several days. They also had labels on them so people who found them could return them for a reward.
Mickey Mouse first appeared in the parade in 1934 and was the parade’s first joint effort with Walt Disney...
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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day.
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The first Thanksgiving feast was held to thank the...
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Congress did not declare Thanksgiving a national...
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The average person consumes 4,500 calories on...
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There was no milk, cheese, bread, butter or...
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Turkeys can have heart attacks.
Think how your dinner died tonight.
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Only male Turkeys gobble. Females make a clicking...
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The annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade...
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The first Thanksgiving celebration lasted three...
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Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the fourth...
And the second Monday in October in Canada.
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By the fall of 1621 only half of the pilgrims, who...
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Alrrrrrright guys, it's November 26th, and if...
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We here at Oh Yeah Facts (omg, we know you hate the name, we’re working on it. chill) are thankful for our wonderful followers.
To show this appreciation, thanksgiving themed facts all day!
A man in Belgium was thought to be in a coma for...
They call it “locked in.” You can hear, see and think, but your inability to respond to anything leads to a vegetative state diagnosis. The patient is basically trapped in their own body.
Biggest. Fear. EVAR.
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In 2004, 317 people were bitten by rats in New...
(Final Exits, the illustrated encyclopedia of how we die by Michael Largo)
Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the...
Glue is made up of a substance that sticks to things and a solvent that keeps it liquid until you want it to stick. When you put glue on a piece of paper, the solvent gradually evaporates until the glue becomes sticky. When the glue is in a bottle, there is a space inside the bottle above the liquid that is full of air. So why doesn’t the glue dry out? Well there’s a limit to the...
Mailbag Monday: When did we start using toilet...
What we know as “toilet paper” dates back to around the 1880’s, though people have been cleaning their rear ends for centuries. Before toilet paper, the obvious solution was to use things commonly found in the environment: Eskimos used snow, farmers used corn husks, and coastal inhabitants used shells or coconuts. Even the ancient Romans has a device for wiping, consisting of a...
Oh shit, forgot mailbag monday for the 2nd week in...
Alright, you know the deal. Or maybe you don’t. Leave a question and we here at Oh Yeah Facts will try to answer it.
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In Germany, copies of Medal Of Honor: Frontline...
Nazi symbols were outlawed in Germany shortly after the war ended, along with any copies of Mein Kampf (source)
In the game of Chess, the word “checkmate” comes...
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Great new, you don't actually swallow spiders in...
Back in ‘93, a columnist for PC Professional named Lisa Holst decided to prove that you could make up anything on the internet and people would believe it.
She did this by making up a set of facts that were utterly ridiculous, the spider myth among them (which itself was taken from a collection of insect folklore that dates back to the 1950s), and unleashing it on the world in the form of...
A large percentage of U.S. currency contains trace...
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Related: Don’t do drugs.
95 percent of high school students say they’ve...
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Me? I cheat on every test and quiz I get. Every one. (PS, this is Adg, not James. I’m willing to bet he’s an honest person)
What about you, have you ever cheated?
A standard piano has 88 keys: 52 white and 36...
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Men sleep with an average of 7 women in their...
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And no, I don’t particularly believe it either, but statistically siginifcant surveys don’t lie.
Mailbag Monday: Why is the sky blue?
Blue in sunlight collides with air molecules and our eyes see it as blue.
Asked by poppingcandy
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Mailbag Monday: Which REALLY came first, the...
Though chickens have been around for thousands of years, dinosaurs were laying eggs millions of years prior. So technically, eggs were around well before chickens.
Asked by reality-uncheck.
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Mailbag Monday: Where did the names of the days...
The names of the days of the week came to us from the mythological gods of AncientRome. It was the Romans who were the first to begin their days at midnight, while the ancient Babylonians began theirs at sunrise and the ancient Jews, at sunset.
Sunday was named because it was the day sacred to the sun.
Monday was named because it was sacred to the moon.
Tuesday was named after Tiw, a god of...
Mailbag Monday: What was the longest time period...
Charles Osborne (1894 – May 1, 1991) hiccupped continuously for 68 years (1922-1990). Osborne began hiccuping in 1922, while weighing a hog for slaughter. Despite his condition, Osborne was able to lead a normal life, marrying and having eight children.
An outside source estimated that Osborne hiccuped 430 million times over the 68-year period. Osborne’s hiccup attack ended mysteriously on...
Mailbag Monday!
Last week’s Mailbag Monday was all kinds of rad, so let’s give it another go this week.
For those who don’t know the drill, ask us a question, we’ll answer it with pure fact. Oh. Yeah.
So, what’s on your minds?