1. The first athlete in the U.S. to ever earn $1 million in his lifetime was a bare-knuckle boxer named John L. Sullivan in 1882.
2. The world’s oldest beer recipe comes from approximately 1800 B.C. in ancient Mesopotamia. And people today have brewed it . . . and found it tasted dry.
3. In Argentina and Spain, Tuesday the 13th is considered unlucky, not Friday.
4. It takes 872 gallons of water to produce one gallon of wine.
5. The fax machine was invented the same year people were traveling on the Oregon Trail . . . 1843.
