Did You Know Sept-Oct 2021

McSorley’s Old Ale House, established in 1854 in the East Village, has served beer to Abraham Lincoln and John Lennon.

The ginkgo is the oldest surviving tree species, having remained on the planet for some 200 million years.

The summit of Mount Everest is about the size of two Ping-Pong tables.

Samsung was founded in 1938 as a shop selling vegetables and dried fish.

When the ants of the species Myrmecina graminicola encounter danger while on a slope, they tuck into a ball and roll away, the only ants known to move in this way.
A study on voting behavior found that a quarter-mile increase in distance from a polling booth reduced voting by 2 to 5 percent.

Only a certain peanut bred for the proper size and the look of its shell makes the cut for the ballpark trade. It’s called the Virginia, grown in that state but also in the Carolinas, Texas and New Mexico.

We breathe roughly 25,000 times a day.

The world’s population is expected to start shrinking in about 45 years.

Frank Hayes was hailed as the winner at a race at Belmont Park in 1923. However, there was a slight problem. Hayes suffered a heart attack and died in the middle of the race so the celebration wasn’t exactly sweet.

Whenever a Kit Kat bar is somehow made imperfect during production, the chocolate bar isn’t thrown out. Instead, they are ground up into a fine paste and turned into a filling that’s then incorporated back into the production process to create new Kit Kat bars.


Antarctica is covered in a sheet of ice that’s 7,000 feet thick.


- Vinnie D’Ambrosio