True. If you can’t get Martin Van Buren nominated, you just nominate James Polk instead.
Or were you talking about the pianos?
In David Bowie’s “Life on Mars?” song, he sings “Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow, and Lennon’s on sale again.”
In Bush’s “Everything Zen”, they sing “Minnie Mouse has grown up a cow, Dave’s on sale again.”
A gallon of gasoline contains more hydrogen than a gallon of liquid hydrogen.
The U.S. state closest to Africa is Maine.
The fax machine was invented before the telephone.
The most abundant element in the earth’s crust is oxygen.
I have a professional relationship with the supplier of 70% of the worlds Sitka Spruce tonewood. Within the next few years they will be out of wood. The last log buyer I talked with was working hard to get a 5 year supply and purchasing lower grade logs in the hope that they will be able to cut out a few decent slabs for tops and sell the lower grade portions to the piano industry.
Yes, but still 80% of that passage was word for word the lyrics, and I agree it is not really surprising trivia. I think I was looking for the random thoughts thread and lost my way 
And the third is aluminum, but it’s so hard to extract that it was once more valuable than gold in its pure form.
And they originally wanted to put aluminum siding on the Washington Monument because it was so valuable.
I just found out that the father of Ulysses S. Grant spent several years living in the same house as abolitionist John Brown.
The pyramid on the top of the Washington Monument is made out of aluminum for that reason.
“Baa Baa Black Sheep,” “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” and “The Alphabet Song” are all derived from the 1761 French melody Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman. Of course this group probably already knew that. 