Hamburger University

Posted by ashley @ 11:53 am on July 16th

There is a university called the Hamburger University. Its basically the McDonald’s center of training excellence based in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. Approximately 5,000 attend it every year and since its inception in 1961, 80,000 people have graduated from the Hamburger university!

Source: http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/mcd/careers/hamburger_university.html

  • Share/Bookmark


First video by a black artist to be on air on MTV

Posted by ashley @ 11:46 am on July 15th

“Billie Jean” by Michael Jackson was the first video by a black artist to be on air on MTV (1983).

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Jean

  • Share/Bookmark


Baskin Robbins

Posted by ashley @ 11:56 am on July 14th

Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins, founders of the famous “Baskin-Robbins” Ice cream parlor chain, were both linked to die of high consumption of ice cream over their lifetime!

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Baskin    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvine_Robbins

  • Share/Bookmark


Hard liquor

Posted by ashley @ 11:45 am on July 13th

In 1830, the average American consumed 1.7 bottles of hard liquor per week, three times the amount currently consumed in 2010.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States

  • Share/Bookmark


Did Native Americans cut off the noses of adulterous wives?

Posted by ashley @ 11:32 am on July 12th

The earliest mention found of a Native American women having their noses cut off for adultery is in a memoir by Alexander Maximilian, a Prussian prince, naturalist, and ethnographer who explored the Great Plains in the 1830s. He said this about the men of the Blackfeet tribe: “They generally punish infidelity in their wives very seriously, cutting off their noses in such cases; and we saw, about Fort McKenzie, a great many of these poor creatures horribly disfigured. When ten or twelve tents were together, we were sure to see six or seven women mutilated in this manner. The husband also cuts off the hair by way of punishment.” Repudiated by her mate, the mutilated woman was no longer marriageable and ended her days laboring for other households — perhaps counting herself lucky she hadn’t been killed outright, as sometimes occurred.

  • Share/Bookmark


Dynamite

Posted by ashley @ 11:22 am on July 11th

The nitroglycerin in the pills, patches, and sprays that heart patients use for angina (chest pain) is in fact the same stuff you find in dynamite. The medicinal dose is tiny and diluted with inert material, so it’s completely nonexplosive.

Source: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2506/how-does-nitroglycerin-stop-heart-attacks

  • Share/Bookmark


FedEx Logo

Posted by ashley @ 12:00 am on July 10th

You would say you have seen it thousand times, but this time make sure you notice the arrow formed between the letters “E” and “X” conveying speed, direction and reliability of this amazing courier service.

  • Share/Bookmark


Amazon

Posted by ashley @ 12:00 am on July 9th

This famous logo is extremely clean and simple but this arrow might not look like more than a smile to you.  The concept behind this…it says that amazon.com has everything from a to z and it also represents the smile brought to the customer’s face.

  • Share/Bookmark




Top of page 

Previous - Homepage - Forward