# THE BIG MAC TRIVIA FILE... WITH FRIES!
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McDonald's sell more than 1/3 of all the French fries sold in restaurants in the U.S. each year.
• McDonald's restaurants will buy 54,000,000 pounds of fresh apples this year. Two years ago, McDonald's purchased 0 pounds of apples. This is attributed to the shift to more healthy menu options.
• Nearly one in eight workers in the US has at some time been employed by McDonald's.
• In India the "Big Mac" is changed into the "Maharaja Mac", a mutton burger in deference to religious injunctions against the consumption of beef and pork.
• Sälen in Sweden opened the first SKI-THROUGH McDonald's in the world.
• More than 50,000 students from all over the world have graduated with "Bachelor of Hamburgerology" degrees from McDonald's "Hamburger University.
• McDonald's three kosher restaurants in Israel are the only McDonald's in the world where you cannot buy a cheeseburger.
• Sarah Michelle Gellar was sued by McDonalds at the age of four. She appeared in a Burger King advert where she said, "Do I look 20 per cent smaller to you? I must have at McDonalds because their hamburgers are 20 per cent smaller than Burger King’s." It was the first time a company used another company’s name in an advert so McDonald’s sued Burger King, the advertising agency, and Sarah herself.
• Since its founding in 1955, McDonald's has sold well over 100 billion hamburgers.
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The northernmost McDonald's restaurant is located on the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi, Finland, while the southernmost franchise is located in Invercargill, New Zealand. Also, the world's easternmost McDonald's is located in New Zealand, in the city of Gisborne; the westernmost restaurant is in Western Samoa, as they are the closest to either side of the International date line.
# TITANIC TRIVIA
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The approximate cost to make the movie, Titanic, was $200 million, while it would cost about $123 million in today's dollars to build the ship.
• 47 elephants and dancing bears survived the sinking of the Titanic and got jobs in New York thereafter.
• The last photograph of the Titanic was taken by Fr. Brown from Queenstown (now Cobh) pier in County Cork. Fr Brown disembarked at Cobh but was asked to stay on until America. His Jesuit seniors refused him permission and Fr. Brown went on to become a world famous photographer during the Great War and the years following it.
• In the movie of the Titanic, when Jack walks through the french doors for dinner with Rose and her family, a camera man's reflection can be seen on the glass.
• In the movie of the Titanic, Jack Dawson said that he learned some of his sense of seamanshiip near his home near Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, on Lake Wissota. Trouble is, Lake Wissota was not even there until 1917, five years after the Titanic hit bottom.
• In the movie of the Titanic, Captain Smith is wearing contact lenses. Rose's collection of paintings include very famous pieces that were never on the Titanic (Monet's Water Lilies and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon). The verses they sing at the worship service weren't added to the hymn until around 1937. Molly Brown wasn't called Molly until after she was rescued. When Rose's picture is being drawn, the artist is left-handed, but they show Jack as being right-handed. (James Cameron drew the picture).
• Two dogs survived the sinking of Titanic, yes that's right, two DOGS survived. They escaped on early lifeboats carrying so few people that no one objected. Miss Margaret Hays of New York brought her Pomeranian with her in lifeboat No. 7, while Henry Sleeper Harper of the publishing family boarded boat No. 3 with his Pekinese, Sun Yat Sen.
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In the movie, a man with a yellow shirt and a black moustache fell off the boat and drowned. Five minutes later the same exact man was seen playing the violin with two other men. # THE WORLD AT WAR
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Despite what Hollywood claims in the film U-571, the Germans' wartime Enigma code machine was actually captured in a British operation involving HMS Bulldog and HMS Aubretia in May 1941 - six months before the USA joined World War 2.
• When World War II began, the U.S. government declared platinum as a strategic metal and its use in non-military applications, including jewelry was disallowed. To appease consumers who preferred platinum's white luster, gold was substituted in platinum's absence.
• During World War II, a German U-boat was sunk by a truck. The U-boat in question attacked a convoy in the Atlantic and then rose to see the effect. The merchant ship it sank had material strapped to its deck including a fleet of trucks, one of which was thrown in the air by the explosion, landing on the U-boat and breaking its back.