# 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...

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