There are books full of strange facts, crazy ideas, and slips of the tongue. I made a list for your enjoyment below many of these sayings. Enjoy!
Most old timey bottled elixirs, liniments, tonics and revitalized the victim sick, because they happened to contain a healthy shot of whiskey or a strong dose of morphine. The 1907 Food and Drug Act forced many quack medicines out of business, leaving only the proven resources and new, to provide images Stoic inventors.
Dairy cows usually give milk for five – six years, producing an average of 12,147 pounds of milk.
The meat will not dissolve if left in a glass of Coca-Cola overnight will, however, be tender and marinated.
If all the Coca-Cola always occurs in regular size 16 ounce bottles and laid end to end, would reach the moon and back 1,045 times. This is a travel day for two years, 10 months and eleven days.
"Good to the last drop", a slogan used by Maxwell House coffee was first used by Coca-Cola 1908.
On an average day in 1993, consumers drank 705 000 000 servings of Coca-Cola beverages worldwide.
Coca-Cola Pepsi sold around the world for more than two to one margin.
The Egyptians used toothpaste since 2000 BC, made of pumice powder and wax. They also used toothpaste made from human urine, which doctors insisted Romans bleached teeth. (Curiously, the ammonia in wine acts as bleach).
Scholl Dr. Scholl's foot-pads attached to his own credo: "Early to bed, get up early, work like hell and advertise."
A wild theory: English writer Samuel Johnson said: "The cause of baldness in men is the dryness of the brain, and reducing the skull. "
Heroin was used in cough syrups and pain medication prescribed by doctors for headaches and cramps menstrual. In 1910, after twelve years in the market, doctors realized that heroin is more addictive than morphine. In 1924, the U.S. banned the manufacture of heroin, but then for a lot of addicts had to create a demand for heroin in the black market.
In 1941, when he was told that the Japanese had destroyed Pearl Harbor, the actress Joan Crawford said: "My God, who was he?"
In 1903, British surgeon, Sir Jonathan Hutchinson incorrectly insisted that eating bad fish was the cause of leprosy.
Myrrh, an aromatic gum resin secreted by the bushes, was used as a dressing from the dawn of history. Myrrh was one of the gifts presented to Jesus on the day of his birth. The Papyrus Smyth and the Egyptian medical text dated 1650 BC, describes the myrrh as "a more effective balm" for the soldiers of Pharaoh. Microbiologists confirm that myrrh inhibits bacterial growth and is bacteriostatic against Staphylococcus aureus, the most common bacterial invader.
In the 1939 film "Gone With The Wind, "Melanie's pregnancy, when calculating the dates of the civil war battles mentioned, hard twenty-one months.
In the Aeneid, poem Virgil's epic, two characters, and Numa Chorinaeus die, and then reappear as if nothing had happened.
In the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, Panja Sancho sell his donkey, then without any explanation is seen riding again. Loses his coat with food in your pocket, but later, has the food. Its hull is broken in pieces, but later, without explanation, which reappears in one piece and unscathed.
In the novel Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe, Crusoe takes off her clothes, anything from a wreck, and there are some cookies, we are told, put them in his pockets.
In the novel Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott, the first name of one of the characters, Richard Malvoison inexplicably changes to Felipe.
In the novel War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy Natasha is 17 in 1805, four years later, in 1809, who is 24, which miraculously 7 years. Prince Andrei icon also silver turns to gold, no apparent reason.
I was surprised to learn that many of these errors novel! How could all errors get through so many people: the author, reviewer, editor, etc?
I hope you enjoyed learning those little things extraneous information. Perhaps it helps in a quiz one day!
Tracey Criswell Wilson is an author on http://www.Writing.Com/ which is a site for Writers. Many of Tracey’s writings which include, non-fiction, fiction and poetry can be found on this interactive site.
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