In the spirit of C.A.N.I. (Continuous And Never-ending Improvement), here are this week’s new facts—one for each day of your coming week. Pass them on to others to keep the spirit alive or invite your friends and family to visit our blog where they can also view previous entries.
- “The Alphabet Song,” “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” and “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” are all sung to the same music: a 1765 French song titled “Ah! Vous dirais-je, Maman.”
- Lemon Pledge has more lemons than Country Time Lemonade.
- The world’s largest manufacturer of female apparel is Mattel, which makes Barbie clothes.
- It took more than 1,800 years to complete the Great Wall of China.
- The fastest-growing plant on earth is bamboo, which can grow as much as 35 inches a day!
- In the 1950s, the Rocket Chemical Company was working on a product for the aero-space industry that would reduce rust and corrosion by removing moisture from metals. It took them 40 tries to come up with a workable Water Displacement formula. Therefore, they named it WD-40!
- When World War I broke out in 1914, the Becton Dickinson Company had to stop importing German elastic bandages and start making them in the United States. They held a contest to give the new product a name. The winner was a group of doctors who called it ACE for All Cotton Elastic.
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