A Coca-Cola employee was once fired for marrying a Pepsi employee.
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A Coca-Cola employee was once fired for marrying a Pepsi employee.
People with mental illnesses tend to dream less.
Identity Crisis, Texas Style
The Dallas Cowboys play in Arlington, Texas, at AT&T Stadium. That stadium is also home to college football's Cotton Bowl game, which is no longer held at the Dallas Stadium that's actually named the Cotton Bowl.
The Texas Roadhouse restaurant chain was started in Indiana by a man who initially wanted to run a “Colorado-themed“ restaurant.
The saddle shape of a Pringles chip is mathematically known as a hyperbolic paraboloid.
In the 1950s, author/illustrator Maurice Sendak started working on a children's book about horses, but quickly discovered that he couldn't draw a horse to save his life. So he decided to draw monsters instead. The book, published in 1963 as Where the Wild Things Are, has since sold 20 million copies (probably more than if he'd stuck to horses).
Martin Van Buren was the first (and only) American president who was not a native English speaker. Also the first president born a U.S. citizen (his predecessors were all born before the American Revolution), Van Buren was born in the Dutch-speaking community of Kinderhook, New York. His parents could speak English when they needed to, but spoke only Dutch at home. Young Martin didn't get much exposure to English until he went to school.
John Adams was the first sitting president to not attend his successor's inauguration. Twenty-eight years later, his son, President John Quincy Adams, continued the family tradition and skipped out on Andrew Jackson's inauguration after Jackson defeated him in the election of 1828.
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TALK TURKEY
Meaning: Dispense with the small talk and get down to business
Origin: The phrase first appeared in the American colonial days when the Pilgrim Fathers always seemed to want turkeys when they traded with the Indians. So familiar did their requests become that the Indians would greet them with the words, “You come to talk turkey?“
