Why is Boston called Beantown?
Back in colonial days, a favorite Boston food was beans baked in molasses for several hours. Back then, Boston was sort of awash in molasses – it was part of the “triangular trade” in which slaves in the Caribbean grew sugar cane to be shipped to Boston to be made into rum to be sent to West Africa to buy more slaves to send to the West Indies. Even after the end of this practice, Boston continued as big rum producing city – the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 (which killed 21), ocurred when a tank holding molasses for rum production exploded.
Today, Boston baked beans are something of a rarity – there are no companies in the city making it and only a few restaurants serve it. If you want to try it yourself, here’s a Boston baked beans recipe
via The Boston FAQ.
The odds an adult has had sex on a first date are 1 in 3.55 (US, 8/2004).
1 in 3.55
The odds an adult has had sex on a first date are 1 in 3.55 (US, 8/2004).
via Book of Odds – The odds an adult has had sex on a first date are 1 in 3.55 (US, 8/2004)..
The odds an adult who regrets getting a tattoo regrets it because he or she was too young at the time are 1 in 5 US, 1/2008.
1 in 5The odds an adult who regrets getting a tattoo regrets it because he or she was too young at the time are 1 in 5 US, 1/2008.
Facts About Oprah – did not receive her first pair of shoes until she was six years old
Oprah did not receive her first pair of shoes until she was six years old. At the age of 2 ½, she could already leave. When she started kindergarten, she wrote a note to the teacher, which insisted she should be allowed to skip kindergarten. The kindergarten teacher agreed. After skipping kindergarten and finishing first grade, she was skipped ahead to third grade.
via Interesting Facts About Oprah – Associated Content – associatedcontent.com.
Tootsie Roll Fun Facts – sell more than 60m a day, they were the first candy to be wrapped in apper and sold for a penny
When a product reaches an age advanced enough to be known as a “national institution,” it usually bears little resemblance to its original form – however, this is not the case with Tootsie Roll.
The round piece of chewy, chocolatey candy that delights Americans today still looks and tastes amazingly like the first Tootsie Roll, made over 109 years ago.
Even more astonishing, the candy roll still sells for one penny, the original price, even though the company now offers candy packages priced up to $7.17. The first penny candy to be individually wrapped in paper, Tootsie Rolls are so protected today – but the modern design of the wrapper signals that changes have occurred in the product’s long and successful story.
Tootsie Roll Industries today is one of the country’s largest candy companies, headquartered in Chicago with operations in Massachusetts, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Mexico and Toronto. Total net sales in fiscal 2004 were over Four Hundred Twenty One Million dollars.
In its 109th year, the company produces more than sixty million Tootsie Rolls per day. Also, as the world’s largest lollipop supplier, the company daily produces twenty million pops.
Click on a image to see a larger pictureTootsie Roll Historical Timeline from 1896 to the Present
1896Austrian immigrant Leo Hirshfield brings to the U.S. his recipe for a chocolatey, chewy candy, which he begins producing in a small store in New York City.
Hirshfield names the candy after his five-year-old daughter, whose nickname is “Tootsie.”
via ~Pixy Rose~~: Tootsie Roll Fun Facts.
The odds an adult will plan to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa are 1 in 1.07 US
1 in 1.07The odds an adult will plan to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa are 1 in 1.07 US, 9/2008 – 10/2008.
How Huge Is the Internet on an Average Day? – Internet – Gizmodo
One in 200 success rate keeps phishing economy ticking over
One in 200 success rate keeps phishing economy ticking over
Phishers only need to land a minute percentage of victims to make scams worthwhile.
Stats culled from Trusteer’s anti-phishing browser plug-in, which is offered by banks to their clients as a transaction security add-on, revealed that 0.47 per cent of a bank’s customers fall victim to phishing attacks each year. The figure comes from the number of users who visited and attempted to enter data onto a known phishing site but escaped because they were using Trusteer’s Rapport browser security plug-in.
Half (45 per cent) of bank customers who are redirected towards a phishing site attempted to hand over their login credentials.
The overall response rate to phishing scams translates to between $2.4m-$9.4m in annual fraud losses (per one million online banking clients), according to Trusteer.
via One in 200 success rate keeps phishing economy ticking over • The Register.
Fun facts about Google Chrome for Mac
- 73,804 lines of Mac-specific code written
- 29 developer builds
- 1,177 Mac-specific bugs fixed
- 12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Mac code base, 48 external code contributors
- 64 Mac Minis doing continuous builds and tests 8,760 cups of soft drinks and coffee consumed 4,380 frosted mini-wheats eaten
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/huzzah.html
There are only two professional sports team that do not have a city or a state in their name. What are they?
The New England Patriots and Golden State Warriors do not contain a city or a state in their name.
Credit: Eric!