Sunday, November 21, 2010

Amusing Facts Weekly - November 3, 20100

*** Amusing Facts For The Week

1. Aztec emperor Montezuma drank 50 golden goblets of hot
chocolate every day. It was thick, dyed red and flavored
with chili peppers.

2. Blackbeard often fired incendiary cannonballs filled with
beeswax, fat and gunpowder. They exploded upon impact,
burning with the ferocity of napalm.

3. "Hello" wasn't always the first thing said over the
phone. The first operating phone service was esatblished
in 1878 and the formal greeting back then was "ahoy"

4. The Jalapeno pepper was named after the town of Jalapa in
Mexico, but it is no longer commercially grown there.

5. China is the world's oldest known continuous
civilization.

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