Here are some random facts for you.
1. The woman who invented windshield wipers in 1903 never made any money from them, because car companies told her they would be distracting to drivers and there was no market for them. But after she let the patent expire, they caught on.
2. Ulysses S. Grant was the first president who tried to get elected for a third term, but the Republican Party decided to nominate James Garfield for the 1880 election instead. And it was a good call, since Garfield was elected president.
3. In the country Andorra in Europe, it’s illegal NOT to own a gun. The country doesn’t have an army, so every man between 21 and 60 has to have a rifle in their house just in case the country gets attacked.
4. The first PG-13 movie ever was “Red Dawn” in 1984. The PG-13 rating was created after “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” got a controversial PG rating three months earlier, and proved there should be middle ground between PG and R.
5. The song “Manic Monday” by The Bangles was written by Prince.
(Jalopnik / Wikipedia / Wikipedia / Business Insider / Wikipedia)
