1. The first mass-produced toothbrush was
made
by William Addis of Clerkenwald, England,
around
1780.
2. The Olympic Hymn, played when the
Olympic
Flag is raised, was composed by Spyros
Samaras
and the words added by Kostis Palamas. The
Olympic Hymn was first played at the 1896
Olympic Games in Athens but wasn't
declared the
official hymn by the IOC until 1957.
3. On October 2002, Bill Clinton was given
an
honorary induction into the Arkansas Black
Hall of
Fame, becoming the first white person in
the hall.
4. The ancient Egyptians were the first to
tame
the cat (in about 3000 BC), and used them
to
control pests.
5. The last Olympic gold medals that were
made
entirely out of gold were awarded in 1912.
6. An estimated 20,000 to 30,000 workers
built
the Pyramids at Giza over a period of 80
years.
7. The first Winter Olympic Games were
held in
Chamonix, France in 1924.
7. President Calvin Coolidge, in 1924,
supported
the idea of a national Father's Day. Then in
1966
President Lyndon Johnson signed a
presidential
proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of
June as
Father's Day. President Richard Nixon
signed the
law which finally made it permanent in 1972.
8. India (413-5) beat .Bermuda (156) on
March
19, 2007, its Highest Margins of Victory by
257
runs in World Cup Cricket History.
9. The earliest cockroach fossils are about
280
million years old.
10. The early Olympic Games were
celebrated as
a religious festival from 776 B.C. until 393
A.D.,
when the games were banned for being a
pagan
festival (the Olympics celebrated the Greek
god
Zeus).
11. Skylab, the first American space station,
fell
to the earth in thousands of pieces in 1979.
Thankfully most over the ocean.
12. The Olympic flame first appeared in the
modern Olympics at the 1928 Olympic
Games in
Amsterdam. The flame itself represents a
number
of things, including purity and the endeavor
