Daniel Ganninger > Quotes

“In which state was the first successful oil well drilled in 1859? The Drake Well in Titusville, Pennsylvania was the first successful oil well drilled for the sole purpose of finding oil.”
― Daniel Ganninger, Knowledge Stew: The Guide to the Most Interesting Facts in the World, Volume 2

“wasn't until 1915 when Detroit, Michigan got the first real stop sign.”
― Daniel Ganninger, Knowledge Stew: The Guide to the Most Interesting Facts in the World, Volume 2

“Christopher Latham Sholes patented his first typewriter in 1868.”
― Daniel Ganninger, Knowledge Stew: The Guide to the Most Interesting Facts in the World, Volume 2

“The drinking straw as we know it today is an older invention than one might think. Its birth took place on January 3, 1888, and was invented by a man who owned a paper cigarette holder company named Marvin Stone.”
― Daniel Ganninger, Knowledge Stew: The Guide to the Most Interesting Facts in the World, Volume 2

“Galveston had worked out a good deal, and it didn't mean schlepping bags through security with all the other cattle.”
― Daniel Ganninger, Flapjack

“I tugged on Galveston's parka. "I have an idea," and showed him a tub of bacon grease from my bag. I had procured it from the meteorological station.”
― Daniel Ganninger, Peeking Duck

“Useless Facts About Vodka (How dare you, there's nothing useless about vodka) Vodka does have an expiration date and will most likely go bad after 12 months. Sad but true. No matter, the stuff is usually gone in 12 hours anyways. Until”
― Daniel Ganninger, Knowledge Stew: The Guide to the Most Interesting Facts in the World, Volume 1

“The @ Symbol The first recorded use of the @ symbol was in 1536 by a Florentine merchant to denote units of wine that were called amphorae, but there isn't any certainty how or why it got its shape. Fast forward to 1971 when Ray Tomlinson had a problem connecting people who programmed computers to one another.”
― Daniel Ganninger, Knowledge Stew: The Guide to the Most Interesting Facts in the World, Volume 2

“English came out with the first commercial cardboard box in 1817.”
― Daniel Ganninger, Knowledge Stew: The Guide to the Most Interesting Facts in the World, Volume 2

“The City of Chicago had expected $90 million dollars in traffic fines from newly installed red-light and speed cameras to balance the 2015 city budget, but Chicago drivers didn't play along and racked up only $40 million in fines from the cameras, leaving the city in a $50 million budget shortfall. Though the city says it was for safety, many critics have said the red-light cameras don't enhance safety and are merely used as a cash-grab method to inflate the city's coffers and pad the budget. Even the University of Illinois at Chicago determined that the red-light cameras didn't make things safer in a study they conducted.”
― Daniel Ganninger, Knowledge Stew: The Guide to the Most Interesting Facts in the World, Volume 1

“The company was founded in 1889 as the Marufuku Company by Fusajiro Yamauchi, and they made playing cards for a Japanese game called Hanafuda. Marufuku flourished in the first half of the century and even survived the economic collapse of Japan brought on by World War II. In 1951, Yamauchi changed the name of the company to the Nintendo Playing Card Company. "Nintendo" in Japanese loosely means, "You work hard, but in the end, it's in heaven's hands.”
― Daniel Ganninger, Knowledge Stew: The Guide to the Most Interesting Facts in the World, Volume 2

“patent in 1878 for a new "Type-Writing Machine", as it was known. This was the first time the QWERTY keys had been introduced, and these are the same as we have today. But why did Sholes change his key layout from alphabetical to the QWERTY style?”
― Daniel Ganninger, Knowledge Stew: The Guide to the Most Interesting Facts in the World, Volume 2

“In 1949, China’s communist government moved the country’s five time zones into one. The time for the entire country was based on the time in Beijing, and the reason was based on national unity. There are other oddities with time”
― Daniel Ganninger, Knowledge Stew: The Guide to the Most Interesting Facts in the World, Volume 3