10 GREAT FACTS A DAY - Part 256 (16/05/2014)

2551.            On May 9, 1999 approximately 600,000 gallons of whiskey flowed into the
    Kentucky River during a fire at Wild Turkey Distillery in Lawrenceburg.

2552.            Thomas Jefferson had three achievements placed on his headstone at his
    request, "Here Was Buried Thomas Jefferson/Author Of The Declaration Of
    American. Independence/Of The Statute Of Virginia For Religious Freedom/And
    Father Of The University of Virginia.? He never mentioned being President of the
    United States.

2553.            Humans and cows have the same gestation period, which is about nine months.

2554.            In the Victoria era, red tulips were a declaration of love.

2555.            The sport Lacrosse was initially played by Native American Indians. They played
    the sport to prepare for war.

2556.            It takes a sloth up to six days to digest the food it eats.

2557.            According to Scandinavian traditions, if a boy and girl eat from the same loaf of
    bread, they are bound to fall in love.

2558.            In 1796, Napoleon was only 26 years old when he took command of the French
    Army of Italy.

2559.            A bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed every animal in
    the Berlin Zoo except the elephant, which escaped and roamed the city. When a
    Russian commander saw hungry Germans chasing the elephant and trying to kill it,
    he ordered his troops to protect it and shoot anyone who tried to kill it.

2560.            The expression "Tying the Knot" comes from an old Roman custom where the
    brides clothes were tied up all in knots and the groom was supposed to untie the
    knots.