Heck! We’ve been doing that at the SDMB for years.
The vultures always show up in certain threads, here. I wonder if anyone could explain what the added ingredient is? 
Elvis Presley never performed an encore, and never performed outside the United States of America.
I see, thanks!
The tradition of serving fish with lemon juice comes from an old mistaken belief that lemon juice would melt the small bones people often choked upon.
Vultures have the largest ratio of sinus cavity to head size of any creature.
You drown in a hole/reversal because there is too much air mixing with the water.
He did perform in Cana da once. Lemme go an’ dig up a cite.
That assumes that Canada is not part of the United States. 
The first President of the United States was John Hanson, under the Articles of Confederation. 6 other Presidents were elected before George Washington took office.
Actually, I think you may both be correct. While the original etymology of the word sincere is indeed “one growth” in Latin, we get “sincere” from the French term used to mean pure and clean, or unadulterated. (cite: Mirriam-Webster.)
I have no cite for this, but I do recall reading that the French term came into play because there was something that WAS adulterated with wax… describing that item (whatever it was) as “sincere” came to mean “pure” as we use it.
-The “L.L.” in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
-In 1994 Los Angeles police arrested a man for dressing as the Grim Reaper - complete with scythe - and standing outside the windows of old people’s homes, staring in.
-The saying “it’s so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey” came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off… Thus the saying
-Physicist Murray Gell-Mann named the sub-atomic particles known as quarks for a random line in James Joyce, “Three quarks for Muster Mark!”
-The Sanskrit word for “war” means “desire for more cows.”
In the movie To Have and Have Not, a teenage Lauren Bacall sings while standing next to a piano played by Hoagy Carmichael. Her voice was dubbed by another teenager – Andy Williams.
Snope’s interpretation is subjective…but according to them we could say John Hanson was the first President of “thirteen independent and sovereign states that a decade later became the United States”.
I have to disagree with Snopes on this one. Granted the job was vastly different than it would be, but the title “President of the United States” did exist prior to the Constitution being enacted. There are contemporary references (including at least one by George Washington) addressing John Hanson as the President of the United States.
And now for some other other political trivia:
James Wilson was the longest serving cabinet member in American history, serving as Secretary of Agriculture from 1897 to 1913.
Abraham Lincoln was the first president born outside of the thirteen original states.
The metallic element cobalt gets it name from the German word kobal, which refers to mythical little gnomes (der kobals) that were thought to run around in the mines.
During W.W.II Swedish scientists announced their discovery of element number 102, naming it Nobelium, after Alfred Nobel. American scientists were unable to duplicate the experiment and doubtfully referred to it as “Nobelieveium” until postwar domestic work confirmed its existence.
The dense metallic element tungsten receives its name from the Swedish words tung sten or “heavy stone.” Miners pushing ore carts that contained high concentrations of tungsten observed that they weighed noticeably more.
Our word “dollar” derives from the old Austrian numismatic term, Thaler, which referred to a widely used dollar-sized silver coin.
Earth is the only one of the nine planets which is not more massive than all the smaller ones combined.