A 1991 survey showed indicated that 64 percent of women of distinction were once Girl Scouts.
A 1991 survey showed indicated that 64 percent of women of distinction were once Girl Scouts.
According to The Topps Company, Inc., makers of Bazooka gum, the longest gum wrapper chain ever made was done by a woman in Washington, who spent 18 years making one almost 6,000 feet long.
Department stores first increased customer traffic when they began installing escalators in 1912.
J.C. Penney opened its first store, called The Golden Rule, in Kemmerer, Wyo., in 1902.
The first Macyâs Thanksgiving Day parade was in 1912.
In 1888, Sears, Roebuck & Company published its first catalogue, for watches and jewelry.
In 1925, Sears, Roebuck & Company opened its first store, in Chicago.
Southdale, the first enclosed, climate-controlled mall, opened in Edina, a suburb of Minneapolis, in 1956.
The toy store Toys â Us was originally called Baby Furniture and Toy Supermart.
Baby Furniture and Toy Supermart, the original Toys âR Us, opened its first store in 1957 in Washington.
Emoticons are computer âfacesâ created with a combination of punctuation symbols, accent marks and letters.
Ellis Island was the gateway for more than half of the immigrants entering the United States between 1892 and 1924.
Seattle, Wash., is home to more than 2,000 restaurants.
There are no mosquitoes in Santa Fe, N.M. They donât travel to high altitudes, and Santa Fe rests at 7,000 feet above sea level.
A single little brown bat can catch 1,200 mosquito-sized insects in just one hour.
Bat droppings in caves support whole ecosystems of unique organisms, including bacteria useful in detoxifying wastes, improving detergents, and producing gasohol and antibiotics.
A colony of 150 big brown bats can protect local farms from up to 33 million or more rootworms each summer.
The worldâs smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
African heart-nosed bats can hear the footsteps of a beetle from more than six feet away.
By age 65, most Americans will have spent nine years of their lives watching television.
During a normal day in the US, nearly 11,000 babies are born and 6,000 people die; about 7,000 couples say âI doâ and more than 3,000 others divorce; 2 million gallons of ice cream are produced and over 200 million chicken eggs are laid.
Men are seven times more likely to develop lip cancer than women.
Heels were first added to menâs and womenâs shoes in Europe in 1580.
Stress-related absenteeism costs American industry $15 billion a year.
The Eisenhower Interstate System requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.