Interesting facts- Did you know?
McDonald's is always introducing new items for their loyal customers. And obviously, some are more successful than others.
But their bubblegum-flavored broccoli, which the fast-food chain developed in 2014 as a tastier version of the leafy green
for children, was a complete failure. McDonald's CEO Don Thompson admitted that kids were confused by the taste.
Back in 1939, American author Ernest Vincent Wright published Gadsby, a 50,000-word novel that doesn't use the letter 'e' once.
What's more, it's not the only novel that ditched the letter. Author Georges Perec also wrote the French-language book
La Disparition without the letter 'e' in 1969. That's even more astounding when you consider that the letter 'e' is the
most commonly used letter in the English (and French!) language
Unfortunately, this is one of the did you know facts you probably can't repeat to your friends—and that's because it's
nearly impossible to pronounce. Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
is in New Zealand and is 85 letters long. And when it comes to other super long place names, it's followed by
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in Wales, Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg in the U.S., Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein in South Africa, and Azpilicuetagaraycosaroyarenberecolarre in Spain.
If you can't wait to pop every air-filled pocket the minute you pull a piece of bubble wrap out of a package,
can you imagine how irresistible it would be if it was covering your walls? Engineer Al Fielding and Swiss inventor
Marc Chavannes probably didn't consider that when, in 1957, they invented bubble wrap while trying to create a textured
wallpaper by sealing two shower curtains together to trap air bubbles.
It's pretty common to be afraid of heights and scared of spiders, but if you have arachibutyrophobia, you're among
the smaller group of people that suffer from a fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of their mouths. T
his phobia is often connected to a fear of choking or a fear of sticky textures, but it can also be its own isolated fear.
According to the Guinness World Records, with nine letters and eight of them being consonants, "strengths"
is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel. Which, on reflection, makes it a really weird looking word.