Random Facts: How did Jack White get his last name?

Who started the idea of a detective with a magnifying glass?
Has there ever been a Prom at the White House? 
What happens after a curling match, even at the Olympics?
Where did the idea of Thousand Island come from? 
Do snails have teeth? 
Does an ant have lungs? 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's take a look today at your random facts. The
idea of detectives using magnifying glasses came from Sherlock Holmes.
She used one in the book A Study in Scarlets
in eighteen eighty seven, and the image is sort of stuck.
There's been one high school's stance at the White House.
It was Holton Arms Schools prom in nineteen seventy five.

(00:20):
Gerald Ford was president and his daughter was a senior there. Oh,
and she and her boyfriend broke up right beforehand. After
a curling match, the winners are supposed to take the
losers out for a round of drinks, even at the Olympics.
Thousand Island dressing is named after the Thousand Islands, a
region in the Saint Lawrence River to the United States
and Canada. It was created by a fisherman's wife while

(00:41):
he fished in the river. Jack White from the White
Stripes took his wife some Meg's last name when they
got married. His name was actually Gillis. Ants do not
have lungs, and snails have got teeth, not like our teeth,
you know, but they've got like one thousand to twelve
thousand teeth. Yes, a snail else