Here are some random facts for you.
1. John Tyler is the only president who gave up his American citizenship. He joined the Confederacy during the Civil War and died before the war was over.
2. Starbucks sells more than $2 billion worth of Frappuccinos every year.
3. The chain restaurant Smith and Wollensky got its name when the founder opened up the phone book and randomly picked two people’s last names. The founder was a guy named Alan Stillman, and no one named Smith or Wollensky was ever involved.
4. Otis Redding died in a plane crash in 1967, only three days after he recorded “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay”.
5. The Hundred Years’ War between England and France really lasted 116 years: From 1337 to 1453.
(Mental Floss / Wikipedia / Wikipedia / Wikipedia / Wikipedia)
