Week 32's Fact or Fiction

[Jangar]

Guiness Irish beer was actually created by an Englishman.

[penelope]

Guiness Irish beer was actually created by an Englishman.

I guess fiction

[Jangar]

I guess fiction

:thumbs:

It was created by Arthur Guinness of Kildare County, Ireland. In 1759, Arthur rented an old brewery in Dublin for approximately £70 per year. The term of the lease was for 9 000 years and included 12 horses. By 1930, one in every ten men in Dublin worked for the brewery.

A deck of cards was the first bar-coded product ever scanned.

[penelope]

:thumbs:

It was created by Arthur Guinness of Kildare County, Ireland. In 1759, Arthur rented an old brewery in Dublin for approximately £70 per year. The term of the lease was for 9 000 years and included 12 horses. By 1930, one in every ten men in Dublin worked for the brewery.

A deck of cards was the first bar-coded product ever scanned.

fiction from me again

[Jangar]

fiction from me again

:thumbs:

It was a pack of Wrigley's gum. The bar-code system was in developement for more than 20 years before a universal code could be released. In 1948, a supermarket went looking for a faster and more accurate way of recording data at the check out counter. In 1974, the Universal Product Code was ready to be applied to every item that would be produced and sold, and a pack of gum became the first product ever scanned.

A gastric brooding frog is one that incubates its young in its belly.

[penelope]

:thumbs:

It was a pack of Wrigley's gum. The bar-code system was in developement for more than 20 years before a universal code could be released. In 1948, a supermarket went looking for a faster and more accurate way of recording data at the check out counter. In 1974, the Universal Product Code was ready to be applied to every item that would be produced and sold, and a pack of gum became the first product ever scanned.

A gastric brooding frog is one that incubates its young in its belly.

I guess fact

[Jangar]

I guess fact

:thumbs:

3 in a row, I'm impressed

This frog species (now extinct) was somehow able to stop production of hydrochloric acid (the digestive fluids) while raising baby frogs. The female swallowed her eggs and kept the developing brood in her stomach until they passed tadpole stage, at which time they came hopping out of her mouth.

The character Rhett Butler in the novel Gone with the Wind was written with Clark Gable in mind.

[sooibrand]

fiction

[penelope]

then I say fact

[Jangar]

And I say it's a tie, so no smiley today.

Fiction - Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone with the Wind, her first novel, between 1925 and 1932. Clark Gable had only started to make a name for himself in Hollywood in 1931. Before that he survived on various odd jobs, travelled with a small theatrical stock company, and worked as an extra. As Gable said, "I am certain Miss Mitchell was not interested in an obscure Oklahoma oil field worker, which I was at the time".

After the inventor of the Frisbee died, he was cremated and molded into flying discs.