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Chiropractic was founded by a “magnetic healer”
At one stage, the founder of chiropractic (Daniel Palmer) considered turning it into a religion

John Hancock was the only one of fifty signers of the Declaration of Independence who actually signed it on July 4

In highschool, Barack was known as Barry and was part of the “Choom gang”
Obama won a Grammy Award in 2006 for Best Spoken Word Recording for the audio version of his book; Dreams From My Father
Obama’s family home in Chicago has 4 fireplaces
He worked in Baskin-Robbins as a teenager
Obama experimented with drugs and admitted that back in his early years he tried marijuana and cocaine but was not proud of it
Barack is a smoker but does not drink alcohol
One of Obama’s favourite books is ‘Where Wild Things Lie’
He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii but went to live in Indonesia with his mum when his parents divorced. There he was introduced to dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper
Obama used to love wearing sweaters. Now you only see him in a suit and tie
An advertisement for the assasination of Obama made its way into a newspaper before being quickly taken off

Chess was invented in Iran
There are more than a thousand trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion ways a chess game can be played. ( 10¹²⁰). That is more than the number of electrons in the universe
The Queen in chess was originally a male prime minister and could only move 1 square diagonally. Her power grew during the Renaissance period.
The folding chess board was invested by a priest
The rook is named from an Arabic word rukh, meaning chariot. During the Middle Ages, when chariots were no longer in use, the rook was gradually modified to look more like the turret of a castle.
The word “checkmate” comes from the Persian phrase “shah mat,” which means “the king is defeated.”
Lewis Carrol’s novel “Through the Looking Glass” was based on a chess game, much the way “Alice in Wonderland” was based on playing cards

A titanium driver hitting a golf ball can create a sonic boom
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
Golf has been played on the moon! (Alan Shepard 1971)
The longest hole on a golf course is the sixth hole at the Koolan Island Course in Australia. The hole measures 860 yards
Scotland invented golf but then banned the game in 1647.
It was rumoured to stand for Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden. That is in fact wrong. The medieval Dutch word “kolf” or “kolve” meant “club.” It is believed that word passed to the Scots, whose old Scots dialect transformed the word into “golve,” “gowl” or “gouf.”

In the past, barbers were also surgeons and dentists
When a barber finished an operation, he would wrap the bloody bandages around a pole. That is the origin of the red swirled barber pol
Barbers are mentioned in the bible. “Now, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor to shave your head and your beard.”
In England, people were required by law to shave their head or beard
Barbers used to give their clients enemas

Bill Gates’ house was designed using a Macintosh computer
Bill Gate had a SAT score of 1590. The top score for the test is 1600
Bill Gates earns $250 every second; that’s about $20 million a day and $7.8 billion a year
By the age of 17, Gates had sold his first computer program, a time-tabling system for his high school, for $4,200

The digits 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 are known as Arabic numerals but were originally defined by Indian mathematicians
The symbols for 1, 4 and 6 were accepted first. The symbols for 2, 7 and 9 were only accepted 100 years later

The word ‘upset’ originated from horse racing. The common use of the word came after one race where a new upstart horse named ‘Upset’ unexpectedly beat the crowd favourite named ‘Man O’ War’ who had never lost a race before that day