Further Exploration of the Factorium

Sunday, January 16, 2011

I Didn't Know Zat! # 3

1. New Zealand was the only team that went through the 2010 Football World Cup undefeated.


2. The guillotine was invented by Dr.Antoine Louis, secretary of the College of Surgeons. It was initially called Louisette or Louison, before being named guillotine for Joseph-Ignace Guillotin who recommended its use.


3. The newton, named after the physicist Isaac Newton, is approximately the force exerted by gravity on an apple at the Earth’s surface.


4. Henry Ford is the only American mentioned in Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf”.

5. Before being renamed, Melbourne used to be known as Batmania - after one, John Batman who settled there in 1835.

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