Week 22's Fact or Fiction

[Toktokkie]

It's majority rules so I get to do a :cheer: :haha:

Fact

Yale graduate Frederick W. Smith, who had outlined the revoluntionary idea of overnight package delivery in a college term paper, was hoping for a contract with the Federal Reserve Bank. Although the proposal was not accepted, he persevered and went on to build the company into a world-famous leader in delivery service business.

Tootsie Roll candies were named after the famous 1920s song "Toot, Toot Tootsie, Goodbye".

My nephew flies for Fed Ex. Shows how much I know.

Fiction. It was named after a person. Methinks it was a mother, or wife, or child.

[Jangar]

:thumbs: Well done everyone

Tootsie Roll, the chocolaty candy product, was named after Clara Hirschfield, whose nickname was Tootsie. Her father, Leo Hirschfield, came to the United States in 1896 and set up a small candy store in New York City, where he hand-rolled and wrapped a candy creation whose recipe he had brought from the old country. Tootsie Roll became the first wrapped penny candy in America.

Because it is the lightest metal, lithium is used extensively for building aircraft and missiles.

[dudette]

Fiction - it is aliminium

[Toktokkie]

Fact. It's alloyed with other metals.

[penelope]

I ditto Dudette

[Jangar]

Fiction - it is aliminium

Yes and no :haha:

You figure out which :p

[dudette]

My husband R an aircraft engineer, and I have just cheked wiv him. He's neva heard of lithium being used in planes other than for batteries

[Jangar]

:thumbs: to those that said fiction however....

Although lithium is in indeed the lightest metal, it is not strong enough for the rugged stresses on flying objects. It's a leading component of battery anode material and of special glasses and ceramics. The glass for the 200-inch Mount Palomar telescope in San Diego contains lithium. Titanium gets the nod from atmospheric vehicles. It is 45% lighter than steel but just as strong, and 60% heavier than aluminium but twice as strong.

Yogurt was developed before the days of the refigerator as a way to preserve the benefits of milk.

[penelope]

:thumbs: to those that said fiction however....

Although lithium is in indeed the lightest metal, it is not strong enough for the rugged stresses on flying objects. It's a leading component of battery anode material and of special glasses and ceramics. The glass for the 200-inch Mount Palomar telescope in San Diego contains lithium. Titanium gets the nod from atmospheric vehicles. It is 45% lighter than steel but just as strong, and 60% heavier than aluminium but twice as strong.

Yogurt was developed before the days of the refigerator as a way to preserve the benefits of milk.

I guess fact

[dudette]

Then I guess fiction