random fact game

[HappyChristian]

Belize is an english speaking country where homosexuality is illegal.

[Wilchbla]

The Ggantija (Giant's Tower) temple on the Mediterranean island of Gozo near Malta is one of the oldest temples in the world dated at 3600 BC. According to legend it was built by giants (Genesis 6?)

[Guest Guest]

Har Gobind Khorana, who was born in 1922, is (or, possibly, was) a Indian-born American biochemist.

[Wilchbla]

As of 2005 there were 3,995,644 miles of roads in the United States of America.

[Wilchbla]

They six Native American tribes that made up the Iroquois Confederacy ("Six Nations") were the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and the Tuscarora.

[Guest Guest]

George Washington lived from 1732 to 1799.

[Wilchbla]

John Leland was a Baptist minister who had much influence upon James Madison and Thomas Jefferson.

[HappyChristian]

John Gano, chaplain to the continental army, baptized George Washington.

[Wilchbla]

The Boston New-Letter was America's first continuously published newspaper. Its first printing was on April 24, 1704 with John Campbell as editor.

[Guest Guest]

John Adams was president from 1789 to 1797.

[Wilchbla]

Notorious outlaw John Wesley Hardin (1853-1895) was the son of a circuit riding Methodist preacher.

[tired]

Pearls melt in vinegar.

[Wilchbla]

"Sea-Monkeys" are nothing but brine shrimp.

[Guest Guest]

Wyatt Earp, an American frontier law officer who took part in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona lived from 1848 to 1929.

[John81]

Abraham Lincoln once asked General (Winfield) Scott the question: "Why is it that you were once able to take the City of Mexico in three months with five thousand men, and we have been unable to take Richmond with one hundred thousand men?

"I will tell you," said General Scott. "The men who took us into the City of Mexico are the same men who are keeping us out of Richmond."