Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Saturday's Little Known Facts #7

Only 1 is true.

-The name "Wendy" was made up for the book "Peter Pan".

-Many of the creature names in the Star Wars series, such as wookie, jawa, & ewok are words from the language of sanskrit.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Saturday's Little Known Facts #6

Only 1 is true.

-Prior to their careers as entertainers, the Ringling Brothers owned and operated a successful and highly regarded daycare in Trenton, NJ. It was while observing the unique talents of the children during playtime that inspired them to begin their traveling circus.

- In ancient Egypt, beer was valuable it was used as currency.  In fact the workers who built the pyramids were paid 1 gallon of beer a day.