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Tidbit of Information: Assorted Facts about New Orleans and Louisiana
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The city of New Orleans, in the form of a prominent banker named Solomon, provided the money urgently needed by George Washington to fund this Continental Army and win the Revolutionary War.
Contrary to historians who claim the Battle of New Orleans was meaningless because a Treaty had already been signed to end the War of 1812, common sense will tell you that boots on the ground trump ink on parchment anyday. If Lafitte and his Barataria cohorts had not provided the manpower, gunpowder, and lead to supplement Andrew Jackson's ragtag regulars, the British would have had many troops occupying New Orleans and the entire Mississippi watershed. But for these two salient events in American history which New Orleans played a key role, we would all still be speaking the King's English.
Louisiana has the tallest state capitol building in the nation at 450 feet.
The Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans is the largest enclosed stadium In the world.
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the longest over-water bridge in the world at 23.87 miles.
Louisiana 's 6.5 million acres of wetlands are the greatest wetland area in America.
The oldest city in the Louisiana Purchase Territory is Natchitoches , Louisiana founded in 1714.
The first bottler of Coca-Cola, Joseph Bie Denharn, lived in Monroe , Louisiana and was one of the founders of Delta Air Lines, initially called Delta Air Service.
Delta Airlines got its start in Monroe , Louisiana when Parish Agent, C.E. Woolman, decided to try dusting the Boll Weevil that was destroying the cotton crops in the Mississippi River Delta from an airplane. It was the first crop dusting service in the world.
Southern University in Baton Rouge , Louisiana is the largest predominantly black university in America.
Baton Rouge was the site of the only American Revolution battle outside the original 13 colonies.
The formal transfer of the Louisiana Purchase was made at the Cabildo Building in New Orleans on December 20, 1803.
The staircase at Chrétien Point, in Sunset, Louisiana was copied for Tara in "Gone with the Wind."
Louisiana is the No. 1 producer of crawfish, alligators and shallots In America.
Louisiana produces 24 percent of the nation's salt, the most in America.
Much of the world's food, coffee and oil pass through the Port of New Orleans.
Tabasco, a Louisiana product, holds the second oldest food trademark in the U.S. Patent Office.
Steen's Syrup Mill in Abbeville , Louisiana is the world's largest syrup plant producing sugar cane syrup.
America's oldest rice mill is in New Iberia , Louisiana at KONRIKO Co.
The International Joke Telling Contest is held annually in Opelousas, Louisiana.
LSU (The Ole War Skule) in Baton Rouge has the distinction of contributing the most officers to WW II after the U.S. Military academies.
The Louisiana Hayride radio show helped Hank Williams, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash achieve stardom. It was broadcast from KWKH Radio in Shreveport,, Louisiana from 1948 to 1960.
The term Uncle Sam was coined on the wharfs of New Orleans before Louisiana was a U.S. Territory as goods labeled U.S. Were from "Uncle Sam."
The game of craps was invented in New Orleans in 1813 as betting was a Common activity on the wharves.
When states had their own currency, the Louisiana Dix (French for ten) was a favored currency for trade. English speakers called them Dixies and coined the term Dixieland.
New Orleans is the home of the oldest pharmacy in America at 514 Chartres Street in the French Quarter. These early medical mixtures became known as cocktails (guess they were good for what ails ya?), coining yet another term.
New Orleans is the birthplace of Jazz, the only true American art form Jazz gave birth to the Blues and Rock and Roll music. Viva La Novelle Orleans et La Louisiane!!!
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Tidbit of Information: Assorted Facts about the World
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Capital letters and non-capital letters are named 'uppercase' and 'lowercase' because before linotype machines when all type was set by hand, the capital letters were stored in a case above that of the smaller, non-capital letters.
The Declaration of Independence was written on marijuana (hemp paper).
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood, and copper pennies were made of zinc.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before!
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver.
Leonardo DA Vinci could write with one hand while drawing with the other hand. He invented scissors. He spent 10 years getting Mona Lisa's lips painted to his satisfaction.
A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (RJM Note: For humans it may take more alcohol and more time.)
To save yourself from sinking into quicksand, raise your legs slowly and lie on your back.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything bigger around than your thumb.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola. (RJM Note: I rode in 1958 in a new Plymouth convertible with a record player. Must have been a Motorola player.)
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. The same is true of apples. (RJM Note: if you want to lose weight with apples, stay off the sauce.)
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle".
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals. (Sell trinkets at the price of food: that's what makes McDonald's Happy!)
315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who was an albino. He had red eyes.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily. (RJM NOTE: With home deliveries the odds are much less.)
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants. (Mickey Mouse wears pants but no shirt..)
Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A "mill" is a thousandth of dollar or a tenth of a cent.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of their rate of population growth, as of this time.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. But you can have $1.19 in the form of three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, and still not be able to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu-- a New Zealand hill.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
He who laughs last, lasts.
Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you get it wrong.
If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try to pass them, five or six at a time, on a hill, in a blind curve, in the fog.
If the shoe fits, get another one just like it for your other foot.
The things that come to those who wait will be the things left by those who got there first.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day drinking beer.
Flashlight: A case for holding dead batteries.
The shin bone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well. (Levied by Democrats)
When you go into court, you are putting yourself in the hands of 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
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