Woodbury Soap was the first product to show a nude woman in its advertisements. The year was 1936. Edward Steichen's photograph showed a rear, full-length view of a woman sunbathing wearing only sandals.
Writer L. Frank Baum chose "Oz" as the name of the fantasyland in his The Wizard of Oz stories while making up the stories for his children and their friends. He spotted a file cabinet marked O-Z, and impusively named the magical land was "Oz."
X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different versions of the same subject, all painted by Leonardo, under the final portrait.
You can call it Britain, Great Britain, United Kingdom, or U.K. however, if you purchase a stamp there, you won't find any name. Great Britain was the first country in the world to issue postage stamps, and they're the only nation in the world today that doesn't use a national name on their stamps.
A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel.
A bronze cat, believed to be 2,300 years old, was one of the most popular sculptures in the Egyptian Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Despite its popularity for nearly 25 years, a few museum officials had reason to doubt the statue's authenticity. After X-raying the 15-inch-high figure and scanning a small portion of it with an electron microscope, the museum reluctantly declared in 1987 that the sculpture was in all probability a modern forgery.
A bubble is round because the air within it presses equally against all its parts, thus causing all surfaces to be equidistant from its center.
A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.
A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.
A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile
A conventional sign of virginity in Tudor England was a high exposed bosom and a sleeve full to the wrists.
A cord of wood is 128 cubic feet and usually measures 4 feet high, 4 feet, wide and 8 feet long.
A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.
A female pharaoh was unknown in Egypt before Hatshepsut, who began her reign in 1502 B.C. In order not to shock convention, she had herself portrayed in male costume, with a beard, and without breasts.
A fifteenth anniversary is called a quindecennial.
A geoduck is a large clam.
A jet or turbo-jet powered aircraft uses more fuel flying at 25,000 feet than 30,000 feet. The higher it flies, the thinner the atmosphere and the less atmospheric resistance it must buck.
A kelpie (or kelpy) was a water spirit of Scottish folklore reputed to cause drownings.
A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance. On the ocean, a nautical mile measures 6,080 feet. A land or statute mile is 5,280 feet.
A nanosecond is one billionth of a second.
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