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.
- Frisbees outsell baseballs, basketballs and footballs combined in the U.S.
- A nursing blue whale mother produces over 50 gallons (200 liters) of milk a day. The milk contains 35 to 50% milk fat and allows the calf to gain weight at a rate of up to 10 pounds an hour or over 250 pounds (44 kg) a day!
- The Oldsmobile, manufactured by Ransome Olds in 1901, was the first automobile mass-produced in the U.S. About 12 years later, Henry Ford invented an improved assembly-line process.
- KEDS was the first company to mass-market rubber-soled shoes as canvas-topped sneakers in 1917.
- The first person to use the word nerd was Dr. Suess in his 1950 book If I Ran The Zoo.
- The average American 14 year-old has a vocabulary of about 10,000 words. In 1950, it was 25,000 words.
- In March 1945, during World War II, the current queen of England, Elizabeth, joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service, a support branch of the military. She joined to train as a mechanic to repair military vehicles for the war effort. But Elizabeth served only until May, when the war in Europe ended.
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