Did You Know?

Cheerleading was initially an all-male sport. Females were only added to the equation when smaller, lighter bodies were needed for "flying.

One of Prince Charles's Secret Service code names was "Unicorn".

More people watched Elvis's Aloha from Hawaii than the landing on the Moon.

Despite the title of his song “Für Elise,” Beethoven didn’t even know an Elise, at least according to most historians. Beethoven had hideous handwriting—to the point that some scholars speculate the song was actually written “for Therese,” one of several women who turned down a marriage proposal from the notoriously lovesick maestro.

Through the first half of the 20th century, only one winner of the Oscar for Best Picture was filmed in color: Gone with the Wind.

The idea for Godzilla came from a horrible accident when a U.S. atomic test bomb went off in the Pacific, contaminating a Japanese fishing boat’s crew and catch. The fictionalized lumbering demon was a metaphor for America.

Crayola means "oily chalk." The name is derived from the French words craie, or "chalk," and ola, an abbreviation for "oleaginous," or "oily."

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