Who Knew? Some Fun Facts

[Pappy]

A knocker-upper was a person whose primary job it was to wake people up by shooting dried peas at their windows. In the 1930s, Mary Smith earned six pence a week waking the dockers of Limehouse, London. This very famous photograph captured by John Topham was the first he ever licensed. He sold it for five pounds (a week's wages back then) to the Daily Mirror, and decided to give up his career as a policeman and become a freelance photographer for the rest of his life.

 

[Pink Biz]

 

[RadishRose]

At least one acient Greek poet referred to Lotus Land, plus we know the Greeks had contact with Egypt. That's where they learned about a land called Atlantis, said to have disappeared under the sea 9000 years before.

Anyone remember this?

 

[Pink Biz]

 

[OldFeller]

Go Birds!

 

[Pappy]

 

[Pink Biz]

 

[Pappy]

 

[Axel Slingerland]

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Billy Goat Acres is now called Southgate, and it's about 5 miles west of where I live.

 

[DebraMae]

 

[OldFeller]

Icebergs the size of what sunk Titanic

 

[DebraMae]

 

[RadishRose]

Ever wonder how old playing cards are? Here's the oldest surviving complete set — from the 1400s

 

[RadishRose]

This has got to be one of the weirdest cereal box prizes of all time – it's a Lone Ranger Atomic Bomb ring from the '40s that is actually radioactive.

 

[JBR]

Ever wonder how old playing cards are? Here's the oldest surviving complete set — from the 1400s

Amazing! Some mystic seer, many centuries ago, designed playing cards on the basis of a nearly accurate vision of 'a hockey rink', way in the future!

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[Pink Biz]

 

[Pappy]

This has got to be one of the weirdest cereal box prizes of all time – it's a Lone Ranger Atomic Bomb ring from the '40s that is actually radioactive.

I had one of those Rose along with several other cereal rings. Wish I hadn’t sold them on eBay.

 

[Pappy]

 

[OldFeller]

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Gee. That's surprising. So no human voices were heard. How about fish farts?

 

[Pappy]

Gee. That's surprising. So no human voices were heard. How about fish farts?

Just the BIG fish.

 

[OldFeller]

Consumer fact...

When you buy the Pringles party stack for more money, you get the number of Pringle chips
that you should have gotten in the regular sized can.

 

[Paco Dennis]

 

[moviequeen1]

John Williams, Oscar winning film composer, youngest son, Joseph is lead singer in rock band, 'Toto'

 

[RadishRose]

"Stair Dust Corners Introduced At The End Of The 19th Century To Make Sweeping Easier. They Keep Dust From Accumulating In The Corners"

 

[Pappy]