1. Evel Knievel was fired from his mining job after high school for attempting a motorcycle-type wheelie in a large earth mover. In the process, he accidentally hit the main power line for Butte, Montana, causing a city-wide power outage.
2. Some Volkswagen cars in 1959 had coffee makers built into the dashboard.
3. English is the most common language used on websites by far . . . it’s currently around 49%. Spanish is second, at 6%.
4. Maine made it illegal to put tomatoes in clam chowder in 1939. It’s not an official law anymore . . . but they still shame tomato chowder fans.
5. You can get a really good estimate of the temperature in Fahrenheit by counting how many times a cricket chirps in 14 seconds, then adding 40 to that number.
