During WWI, hamburgers were renamed "Liberty steaks", but the name never caught on. While it is true the word "hamburger" is named for the German city, the food we know and love today was not created until the late 1800's when German immigrants put cooked patties of "Hamburg beef" between two slices of bread for portability. Where today hamburgers are served cheap, fast, and are considered rather pedestrian, the first Hamburg steaks served in American restaurants were expensive. Renaming foods to avoid association with an ethnicity or country continues today. In the U.S. during the buildup to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Congressman Bob Ney retaliated against what he considered France's intransigence on the subject of invasion by having French Fries renamed Freedom Fries in Capitol cafeterias. By 2006, the cafeterias were back to serving "French" fries.
Do you wonder why the music sucks today? In 2014 Taylor Swift accidentally released 8 seconds of static on iTunes and it quickly became #1 on Canadian charts.
Scott County, Tennessee, on the state's northern border, seceded from the state rather than go along with secession from the Union in 1861. Its residents agreed on a proclamation creating the Free and Independent State of Scott, which was not repealed - officially rejoining the county with Tennessee - until 1986.
Miami, Florida is closer to the capitals of two foreign nations than it is to the capital of Florida.
While watching the ragged swings of pitcher Gaylord Perry during batting practice one day in the 1960s, Giants manager Alvin Dark sniffed: "They'll put a man on the moon before he hits a home run." July 20, 1969 -- Apollo 11 touched down on the lunar surface, and Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. 30 minutes later Gaylord Perry hit his 1st career home run https://sabr.org/latest/gaylord-perry-theyll-put-man-moon-he-hits-home-run
On December 30, 1899 the S.S. Warrimoo crossed the meeting point of the equator and the international date line at midnight. The ship's forward entered January 1. 1900 while the aft remained in 1899. The Warrimoo simultaneously sat in both hemispheres, two different seasons, months, days and centuries all at once.
When you cross the International Date Line the date changes either forward or backwards. At the stroke of midnight the date on one side changed to Jan 1, 1900 while at the stearn of the ship it was then Dec. 31, 1899.
