Five Random Facts for Friday

Here are some random facts for you.

1.  The last wild cow died in Poland in 1627.

2.  The world’s oldest beer recipe comes from approximately 1800 B.C. in ancient mesopotamia.  And people today have brewed it, and found it tasted dry.

3.  The first athlete in the U.S. to ever earn $1 million in his lifetime was a bare-knuckle boxer named John L. Sullivan in 1882.

4.  Blink-182 was originally called “Blink,” but there was an Irish band named Blink that threatened to sue them.  And the Irish Blink wound up opening a show for Blink-182 about four years later.  (“182” was just picked randomly.)

5.  It takes 872 gallons of water to produce one gallon of wine.

 

(Wikipedia / Realm of History / Encyclopedia / Wikipedia / HuffPost)