More Fun Facts and Tantalizing Tidbits

Hi all, welcome to yet another installment of Fun Facts and Tantalizing Tidbits. Hopefully this little tastes of fun will brighten your day and keep you a little happier about your week.

Tonight we will pick on the chef's out there:

For all those water conservative people out there, it takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni (really good...) but it takes about a gallon to clean the pot once you are done cooking the macaroni. (not so good...)

The wheat that produces a one-pound loaf of bread requires two tons of water to grow...

Only 30% of the famous Maryland Blue Crabs are actually from Maryland, the rest are from North Carolina and Virginia...

Did you ever wonder where some of our slang phrases came from? Did you know the origin of the term "the whole 9 yards"? This phrase was coined by World War II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards".

Did you know the origins of the phrase, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye"? It came from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "no eye gouging". Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someones eye out....ewwwww...

Here is a really interesting bit of history - If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birth place was listed as a post office box in Albuquerque, NM.

Have you ever wondered if there was a better way to lace your shoe and get a better fit? If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside, the fit will be snugger around your big toe.

Lastly, for you advertising and marketing types - have you ever noticed in most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on an analog watch is 10:10 because then the hands of the watch frame the brand name on the watch face?

Hopefully you have enjoyed this week's installment of Fun Facts and Tantalizing Tidbits. Stay tuned for this upcoming Wednesday. It will be an interesting article...for sure...hehehehe...

Until Wednesday...