The new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner is capable of a nearly vertical takeoff. Watch http://news.yahoo.com/boeing-787-dreamliner-wows-near-190552536.html
The license plate of the car in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand was riding when he was assasinated to bring about the start of WWl was 111118. The official end of WWl was Armistice Day, 11/11/18
In a 2014 contest in Amarillo, TX, Molly Schuyler ate a 72 ounce steak, baked potato, shrimp cocktail, roll and a salad in under 5 minutes. followed by a second full meal in under 10 minutes.
The movie Jaws opened with a $7 million weekend and recouped its production costs in two weeks. In just 78 days, it overtook "The Godfather" as the highest-grossing film at the North American box office, and became the first film to reach $100 million in rentals. Then two years later, a little film called "Star Wars" came along. Now, "Jaws" isn't even in the all-time top 100.
According to the University of Leicester, printing the entire internet would require 136 Billion pages of paper.
In honor of Jindal's presidential announcement (I'm shocked to hear this, shocked, I tell you!).... The only US President from Louisiana, Zachary Taylor (actually a Virginia native transplanted to LA), is also the only president elected without ever holding any other public office. He was elected on his popularity as a general during the Mexican-American War.
The guy who played Chewbacca in the Star Wars movies had to be surrounded by guys in hunter orange during filming in the great northwest so he wouldn't be mistaken for bigfoot and shot