I learned at least two new and interesting things in the last 24 hours.
Martin Luther King’s mother was also shot and killed - right in the Ebenezer Baptist Church, by a nut, in 1974.
William Jennings Bryan, three-time failed Presidential candidate and Scopes Monkey Trial foil, was Secretary of State in the Wilson administration.
Have a nice day!
I learnt that butterflies taste and smell with their feet. Where did I learn this interesting fact you ask?
A box of tampons of course… 
wow…a box of tampons.
Now, I rarely read those, but I don’t remember them having triva…is it like oatmeal where there is an interesting tidbit on every packet?
King’s brother, the Rev. A.D. King, died a year after MLK (jr), apparently drunkenly drowning in a swimming pool.
Here’s another factoid:
Lysol was once sold as a contraceptive douche. I kid you not.
There were directions on the bottle for dilution. Unfortunately, women thought if a little would kill “germs” a lot would kill more. Some were horribly burned.
Since the kola nut is of great use in natural contraception, douching with Diet Coke after sex can prevent pregnancy.
False, according to Snopes.
Sumbitch. I didn’t think to check because I read it last night in a book about herbal remedies. If you can’t trust your reference books … sigh
Well, to a certain extent, any douche would reduce the chances of pregancy somewhat but not enough to be a relaible form of birth control. The acids in cola are not sperm-friendly, but again, it’s not effective enough to be relaible-- after all, all it takes is one sperm to survive.
Women down through the ages have used some very interesting forms of contraception. In ancient Egypt, it appears some women used a sort of vaginal plug made of crocodile dung and honey. Women also have used herbs and plants to varying degress of success.
Two books on this subject which might be of interest are Eve’s Herbs by John M. Riddle and Devices and Desires by Andera Tone. The latter is a highly entertaining read about contraceptive devices and the fight to keep them off the market.
You know those little ridges on quarters and dimes? Well, the quarter has 119 ridges and the dime has 118.
And here’s another fact: “factoid” actually means “something only popularly considered to be true.” OED.
Then mine’s a factoid. 
There are colonial-era paintings in Cusco of The Last Supper where the apostles and Jesus are sitting down to a dinner of guinea pig.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo.
However, ducks have a secret society so that whenever a researcher takes a duck to an echo canyon, another duck cleverly hides on the other sides and produces the echo.
Well it could be true.
Yeah, it worked because no one wanted to have sex with them, they were so smelly.
According to my Sociology professor, men in colonial times (and before and after, perhaps) used animal intestines as condoms.
Yuck.
According to this, man has visited the deepest part of the worlds oceans, Challenger Deep in the Mariana’s Trench, just once. In 1960. For 20 minutes.
She runs off into the night, hooting and howling with childish laughter
A duck’s quack does echo, it’s just that the quack already sounds like an echo, so you don’t hear it. I don’t know if that makes any sense, but they proved it on an episode of mythbusters and explained it much better.
The legendary B-25 Mitchell bomber of World War II owed its success in large part to a jazz musician. Frank Trumbauer was a star saxophonist in Paul Whiteman’s orchestra and a longtime amateur pilot who left music to take a job as an FAA official. As a test pilot for North American Aviation in the early 1940s, he suggested many of the improvements that made the B-25 a truly effective airplane.
I thought it was Pinesol that was?