1324 Alicia Silverstone
3041 Writing-Writing was likely only invented from scratch three times in history: in the Middle East, China, and Central America. All other alphabets and writing systems were either derived from or inspired by the others, or were too incomplete to fully express the spoken language.
2980 Telephone Hold Music-The first instance of telephone hold music was a mistake that was caused by a loose piece of wire touching a metal girder at a factory. It turned the building into a giant radio antenna that would play music from a next-door radio station when people were put on hold.
3585 Nestlé Slave Labor-Nestlé has admitted that slave labor is involved in the production of its Fancy Feast cat food brand in Thailand. They agreed that customers were buying products tainted with the blood and sweat of poor, unpaid and abused migrant workers.
967 Spinning Plane
2877 Dress Sizes-A 2011 size 0 is larger than a 1970 size 6.
3838 Jurassic Park Graphics-Jurassic Park’s visual effects were so groundbreaking to filmmakers that it inspired George Lucas to start working on the Star Wars prequels, Stanley Kubrick to invest in pet project, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, and Peter Jackson to work on Lord of the Rings.
1383 Dachshunds
Barnum's American Museum had crowds that would linger inside too long. To make way for new paying guests, signs saying "This Way to the Egress" were put up. Not knowing Egress was another word for Exit, people followed the signs to what they assumed was a fascinating exhibit but ended up outside.
1022 Whiptail Lizard
