Further Exploration of the Factorium

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

I Didn't Know Zat! # 19

1. Nelson Mandela played a cameo in the 1992 biographical flick, Malcolm X.


2. The initial name of Starbucks was designated as Pequod.


3. The Lincoln penny is the longest-running U.S. coin still in circulation.


4. In Genesis, the first task God entrusted to Adam was to give names to all the animals.


5. Lewis Carroll's "Euclid and his Modern Rivals" gained fame as a quote from the book was used in the first official Wikipedia logo.

Wikipedia's first logo in 2001.jpg

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