Amazing fact about the invention of the lighter
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
What were FDR's fireside chats?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt used radio broadcasts called fireside chats to speak directly to Americans during the Great Depression and WWII.
Reference: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library
More facts about radio.
More radio facts
What's on channel 1?
In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to Mobile Services (two-way radios in
taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That's why your TV
set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
What kind of dog did President Bill Clinton own?
President Bill Clinton owned a chocolate Labrador Retriever named Buddy, who lived in the White House alongside the family's famously independent cat, Socks.