Nancy Johnson patented the first hand-cranked Ice Cream freezer in 1843. She sold the patent for $200.
Portland, Oregon consumes more Ice Cream than any other US city.
California is the top Ice Cream producing state.
Thomas Jefferson is often credited with the first known Ice Cream recipe to exist in the US.
It was me… I let the dogs out.
Hmm, I can’t really think of any trivia at the moment.
How bout this one?
The melting point of cocoa butter is just below human temperature, so it literally does melt in your mouth.
The city of Canberra was purpose built to be the capital of the Commonwealth of Australia because neither Sydney nor Melbourne would agree to the other’s being given the honour. Canberra was required under the Australian constitution to be at least 100 miles from Sydney.
If you cut a flatworm in half, both halves will regenerate into a complete organism. If it regenerates in an electric field, you can get its head to grow where its tail should be.
In the city of Davis, CA, a woman was once arrested for breaking a local noise ordinance by snoring too loud.
In her own apartment.
Heh. Just to clarify, you’d get sued not for violating noise ordinances, but because popular music is still under copyright. One of the doctors I work for is adamant that we not have the radio on while patients are in the building. Maybe he’s a little paranoid about being sued?
Oops, apparently a quote within a quote does not show up. I was, of course, referring to my statement about playing the radio in public.
And yet somehow, my neighbors still have loud parties, all night, every night. 
/yoink!
Not anymore! 
A quarter has 118 ridges along its edge. A dime has one less.
I think he wanted you to tell him things that he didn’t know that were true.
The last occasion when the United States House of Representatives required more than one ballot to elect a Speaker was in 1923.
The first television system was built by Paul Nipkow in 1884. It had a vertical resolution of 18 lines.
In Germany, you can purchase legal postage stamps with your picture on them.
When you fire an M-1 rifle the bullet leaves the muzzle at a speed of 2200 feet per second, so don’t think you can dodge it or pull any other silly rifle-oriented stunts.
I learned this in Marine boot camp in 1961. Although M-1s are militarily extinct, I assume the velocity has not changed.
Canada eliminated its one-dollar bills about ten years ago, replacing them with a very attractive coin called a Loony (It bears the image of a loon). The edges of the coin are faceted, and this being a coin worth 100 cents, it should logically have ten facets. It doesn’t. It has eleven. No, I have no idea why.
The ancient Greek word for ‘virtue’ is the same as the word for ‘excellence’ (arete).
There’s a city ordinance in Santa Fe that requires all buildings to have an adobe facade. Because of this, almost all buildings have a ‘lip’ around the flat roof. Very few buildings have ‘normal’ gutters: instead, they have little ‘canales’ (chutes) that come out periodically from the roof, level to the roof. This is to make water drain off the roof several inches away from the adobe, otherwise, the facade will be ruined very quickly.
Lizards can’t run and breath at the same time, as they use the same set of muscles for both activities.
When I got married, I wanted to have all the parts of the wedding rhyme: “Something old (my Grandfather’s Great-grandmother’s hanky) something new (my dress) something borrowed (my DIL’s earrings) something blue (not tellin’) and a sixpence for m’lady’s shoe.”
Well, there was not a pence to be had in Las Vegas, so my friend pulled out a Loony, saying, it was more approprate for me, anyway.
“With arrogance, jackass millionaires mock American justice, vanquishing hopes to preserve the free people’s breathing lungs. Jehovah (God) has given America, continually, hopelessly corrupt megalomaniacs; ruthless tyrants who have corroded human rights, though everyone knows Jehovah’s nuts for Christ’s return before catastrophe befalls” is a mnemonic for the names of the forty-three presidents of the USA.