1. Nintendo released the Game Boy in 1989, but the COMPANY Nintendo had been around since 1889 . . . when it produced Japanese playing cards.
2. Three of the first five countries to send someone to space are no longer countries: The USSR, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany.
3. Gatorade created an alcoholic mix of their lemon-lime flavor and beer called Hop’n Gator in 1969 . . . but they quickly pulled it off the market when it tanked.
4. Almost all of the American flags at Disney World have the wrong number of stars. That way Disney doesn’t need to perform proper flag protocols and lower all of them every night.
5. Almost HALF of the U.S. presidents in the past 80 years have been left-handed: Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.
