Why did Florida ban Christmas caroling?
In 1996, Christmas caroling was banned at two major malls in Pensacola, Florida. Apparently, shoppers and merchants complained the carolers were too loud and took up too much space.
What was so special about Aunt Jemima's?
In 1889, Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented at St. Joseph, Missouri, was the first self-rising flour for pancakes and the first ready-mix food ever to be introduced commercially.
Where were those signs directing Beauty to?
Animation artists love inside jokes. In the Disney film Beauty and the Beast (1991), the road signs that Belle's father encounters in the forest show the names of two California cities: one points to Anaheim, while the other points down a dark, ...
How loud is too loud?
Permanent hearing loss can result from prolonged exposure to sounds at 85 decibels (0 decibels is the threshold for hearing). For comparison, a busy street corner is about 80 decibels, a subway train from 20 feet is 100 decibels, a jet plane from ...
What did Joan think of her name?
Joan Crawford was born Billie Cassin, but her name was changed to Lucille LeSueur when she was young and her mother remarried. When she embarked on a film career as a teenager, film studio executives didn't like her last name as it suggested a ...