I Didn't Know That

This is one of those fun lenses that is made purely for entertainment purposes. It's filled with fun facts about music, food, history, animals, people, and just plain interesting stuff. I hope you enjoy it.

1. Billie Jean by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.

2. The first pop video was Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, released in 1975.

3. Duran Duran took their name from a mad scientists in the movie Barbarella.

4. The best selling rap/R&B album ever in the US is CrazySexyCool by TLC, surpassing MC Hammer.

5. The top selling singles of all time are Elton John's "Candle in the Wind '97".

6. Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented.

7. The CD was developed by Philips and Sony in 1980.

8. It was at a concert in Minneapolis in 1954 that Al Dvorin first closed Elvis's concerts with: "Ladies and Gentleman, Elvis has left the building. Thank you and good night."

9. Elvis favorites collectibles were official badges. He collected police badges in almost every city he performed in.

10. Before they were known as Journey, Steve Perry called his band Golden Gate Rhythm Section.

11. The Beatles holds the top spot of album sales in the US (106 million), followed by Garth Brooks second (92 million), Led Zeppelin (83 million), Elvis Presley (77 million), and the Eagles (65 million). Worldwide The Beatles sold more than 1 billion records.

12. The harmonica is the world's best-selling music instrument.

1. Half of the world's population live on a staple diet of rice.

2. Chocolate is the number one food flavor in the world, beating vanilla and banana by 3-to-1.

3. The first diet soft drink, called the "No-Cal Beverage" was launched in 1952.

4. Ice tea was introduced in 1904 at the World's Fair in St. Louis.

5. Approximately one billion snails are served in restaurants annually.

6. The onion is named after a Latin word meaning large pearl.

7. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

8. A-1 Steak Sauce contains both orange peel and raisins

9. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.

10. Chop-suey does not come from China. It was created by Chinese immigrants in California

11. Bananas are the world's most popular fruit after tomatoes. In western countries, they could account for 3% of a grocer's total sales.

12. The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced.

13. In the Middle Ages, sugar was a treasured luxury costing 9 times as much as milk.

14. Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.

15. An onion, apple and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell.

16. Watermelons are 97% water, lettuce 97%, tomatoes 95%, carrots 90%, and bread 30%.

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1. Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.

2. The Statue of Liberty's tablet is two feet thick.

3. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

4. The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.

5. David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

6. There are only thirteen blimps in the world.

7. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

8. The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

9. The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."

10. Tennessee is bordered by more states than any other. The eight states are Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.

11. The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

12. The two longest one-syllable words in the English language are "screeched" and "strengths."

13. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

14. Many Japanese golfers carry "hole-in-one" insurance, because it is traditional in Japan to share one's good luck by sending gifts to all your friends when you get an "ace." The price for what the Japanese term an "albatross" can often reach $10,000.

15. No word in the English language rhymes with month.

16. There are almost twice as many people in Rhode Island than there are in Alaska.

17. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

18. Only one of the Seven Wonders of the World still survives: the Great Pyramid of Giza.

19. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

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1. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

2. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

3. Hummingbirds are the only animals able to fly backwards

4. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

5. Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

6. Giraffes have no vocal cords.

7. A house fly lives only 14 days.

8. An annoyed camel will spit at a person.

9. Dinosaurs did not eat grass: there weren't any at that time.

10. The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.

11. The largest giant squid ever recorded was captured in the North Atlantic in 1878. It weighed 4 tons. Its tentacles measured 10 m (35 ft) long.

12. Sharks are immune to all known diseases.

1. In the West the most popular male names are James and John. The most popular female name is Mary.

2. Lady Peseshet of Ancient Egypt (2600-2100 BC) is the world's first known female physician.

3. Julius Caesar was known as a great swimmer.

4. When Alexander Graham Bell passed away in 1922, every telephone served by the Bell system in the USA and Canada was silent for one minute.

5. The people killed most often during bank robberies are the robbers.

6. The oldest person on record is Methuselah (969 years old).

7. An exocannibal eats only enemies. An indocannibal eats only friends.

8. Alexander Graham Bell never phoned his wife or mother because they were deaf.

9. On 5th October 1974, four years, three months and sixteen days after Dave Kunste set out from Minnesota, he became the first man to walk around the world, having taken more than 20 million steps.

10. Queen Isabella of Castile, who dispatched Christopher Columbus to find the Americas, boasted that she had only two baths in her life - at her birth and before she got married.

11. Thomas Jefferson wrote his own epitaph without mentioning that he was US President.

12. Winston Churchill was a stutterer. As a child, one of his teachers warned, "Because of his stuttering he should be discouraged from following in his father's political footsteps."

13. In 1973, Swedish confectionery salesman Roland Ohisson was buried in a coffin made entirely of chocolate.

14. A positive pregnancy test taken by a man is a sign of testicular cancer.

1. Humans can't lick their elbows.

2. You cannot sneeze with your eyes open.

3. You cannot fold a square piece of paper in half 7 times.

4. You cannot die from holding your breath.

5. Unless food is mixed with saliva you cannot taste it.

6. You can't tickle yourself.

7. You can't inhale through your mouth & exhale through your nose at the same time.

8. You cannot eat 3 packets of saltine crackers in less than 60 seconds without water.

**Yes, I know that 1 in every so many people can lick there elbow but I included it because it is so rare. If you can do it though, leave me a comment below.**