Interesting Facts - Page 39

During Prohibition in the United States, criminals bought industrial alcohol and repurposed it for human consumption. To prevent this, the government encouraged companies to add poisonous methanol (wood alcohol) to industrial alcohol. This didn't completely stop people from drinking it. It did, however, kill many of the people who did. As many as 10,000 people may have died as a result.

In the 1960s, Lockheed Martin designed a hypothetical nuclear-powered aircraft, the CL-1201, which could serve as a flying aircraft carrier.

"Coolth" is a word. It means the opposite of warmth.

Spaghetti is plural. A single strand of spaghetti is a spaghetto.

Male bees are known as drones. They don't have stingers and don't collect nectar. Their main purpose is to mate with a queen bee. However, if one succeeds in mating, he dies quickly afterward after losing his, uh, parts.