Interesting Facts (A little silly though!!)

• The first kind of pencil was a bunch of graphite sticks held together by string. Then someone decided it would be better to push the graphite into the inside of a hollow wooden stick. Joseph Rechendorfer was the first person to think of putting a piece of rubber onto the top of a pencil which makes it real easy to rub out mistakes.

• The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil

• The alarm clock was not invented by the Marquis de Sade, as some suspect, but rather by a man named Levi Hutchins of Concord, New Hampshire, in 1787. Perversity, though, characterized his invention from the beginning. The alarm on his clock could ring only at 4 am. Rumor has it that Hutchins was murdered by his wife at 4:05 am

• “Fan” is an abbreviation for the word “fanatic”. Toward the turn of the 19th century, various media referred to football enthusiasts first as “football fanatics”, and later as a “football fan”

• There are only four words in the English language which end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

• Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula”