Here are some random facts for you.
1. The term “fridge” doesn’t come from “refrigerator”, it was short for “Frigidaire,” the company that produced the first self-contained refrigerators in 1919. Many Americans called all refrigerators “Frigidaire” or “fridges.”
2. The “Guinness Book of World Records” exists because the director of Guinness Breweries had an argument in 1951 over which game bird is faster, the golden plover or the red grouse.
He thought there should be a book to help settle bar arguments, so he created the book of world records. And the faster bird is the golden plover, by the way.
3. Sylvester Stallone asked Queen for the right to use “Another One Bites the Dust” for “Rocky 3” but they declined. So he asked Survivor to write a song, and they came up with “Eye of the Tiger“.
4. The first British group to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 with their FIRST album was: One Direction, with “Up All Night” in 2012. (And no British act has done it since, with the exception of Zayn Malik and Harry Styles, FROM One Direction, but these were their debut solo albums.)
The Spice Girls’ debut album eventually climbed to Number One in the U.S., but didn’t start there.
5. One single Google search takes more computing power than the entire moon landing mission in 1969.
(Wikipedia / Wikipedia / FandomWire / Billboard / Google Blog)
