Cracked Egg Trivia

1. Grizzly bears have a surprising thing in their diet. To be more specific grizzly bears that live in Yellowstone National Park have a surprising thing in their diet, moths. Every year during the summer hundreds of thousands of millers, which are the adults of the army cutworm, make their way from the farmlands up to the mountains to seek refuge from the sun in between the rocks. Grizzly bears that live in Yellowstone, and sometimes even a black bear or two, will climb up specifically for the purpose of eating these moths. It might seem odd to think of something that big eating something so tiny, but they are actually quite nutritious especially considering the number of moths the bears eat per day. One moth has enough fat to count as about one half of a calorie, and then each bear eats about forty thousand of these moths a day. Meaning that it's belly is filled with about twenty thousand calories just from these little moths daily. 2. William Henry Harrison's inauguration spe...

1. Candy canes date way back and have an interesting timeline. In fact the first candy cane was made around 350 years ago although you probably wouldn't recognize it. The first candy canes looked very different from modern day ones. Originally they were straight and missing those classic stripes, the first ones were all white. It wasn't until 1874 however that candy canes were first mentioned in relation to Christmas in a magazine called the  Nursery Monthly . Further down the timeline in 1882 a magazine called  Babyland  was the first one to mention them being hung on Christmas  trees. It took even longer for the candy canes to get their stripes, that didn't happen until around 1900. In 1921 the process of making candy cane was finally automated when Brasher O. Westerfield invented a machine to make them. Before that people had to make the classic treats by hand. 2.   Upside down Christmas trees are in style. In recent years Christmas trees hanging upside down ...

1. For a little over thirty years President's have been saving turkey's lives. Starting in the 1870's people started sending US President's turkeys for Thanksgiving. President Coolidge tried to discourage the practice in 1923 since the number of turkeys being sent was skyrocketing. The tradition resumed soon however, and he even started receiving other kinds of animals such as ducks, rabbits, and deer. One time he even got a raccoon which he kept as a family pet. Although some turkeys may have been pardoned before President George H.W. Bush he was the first to officially pardon one, starting a new tradition. He stated that the turkey looked "understandably nervous" before assuring everyone that this turkey wouldn't end up on anyone's table and that he was "... granted a presidential pardon as of right now." 2. If you love cranberry sauce, you're not alone. Not everyone appreciates it, but I know I do. It's actually one of my favorite ...