Weekly Facts #53

Posted on 12/30/2020 by Pisaries Creator

Because 2021 is a New Year and I want to focus on other things, I’m taking a break from submitting weekly facts. I will probably start this up later, but until then, this is going to be the last one for a while. I hope you enjoyed them up to this point.

7-Up was invented in 1929 and contained lithium citrate until 1948. It is now prescribed to treat bipolar disorder.

A nook is a corner or small area in a larger room where a cranny is a crack or small narrow space.

Hershey’s Kiss got its name from the puckering sound made by the manufacturing equipment as it looks like it is kissing the conveyor belt as it drops the the chocolate.

A platypus doesn’t smell or hear and uses electroreceptors to hunt for food.

The first recorded pizzeria in the U.S. was in 1905 by Gennaro Lombari in New York City.