The Winnipeg Jets take on the St. Louis Blues tonight at 7:00pm. The Blues are currently the NHL's only undefeated team at 3-0-0, after a 2-0 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday. The Jets, on the other hand, are 2-3-0 after a 4-1 defeat at the hands of the dreaded Toronto Maple Leafs. Both teams are going in opposite directions, so let's hope the Jets can turn things around this evening.
We all know that St. Louis is the “Gateway to the West”, but here are a few fun facts that you may not know...
The tallest man in documented history was Robert Pershing Wadlow from St. Louis. He stood at 8 feet, 11.1 inches tall. I wonder if he could be a good pairing with Logan Stanley...
St. Louis is known to consume more BBQ sauce per capita than any other American city. That must be one messy city...
Before he became famous doing Skip The Dishes commercials, St. Louis' own John Hamm was a drama teacher, who taught Ellie Kemper of “The Office”...
The first successful parachute jump from a moving airplane was made by Captain Albert Berry in St. Louis in 1912...
7 Up was created by Charles Leiper Grigg, who launched his company, The Howdy Corporation, in 1920. He came up with the formula for the drink in 1929 which was originally named “Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda. Which we are really glad was shortened.
It was one of a number of “medicine products” popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Its name was later shortened to “7 Up Lithiated Lemon Soda” before being further shortened to just “7 Up” by 1936.
It contained lithium citrate, a mood-stabilizing drug, until 1948. No one really knows why the name was changed to contain the term 7 Up or shortened to just 7 Up.
In 1928, Jim Howe, a pharmacist in St. Louis, developed TUMS in the basement of his home while trying to figure out ways to treat his wife’s indigestion. A love story and less heartburn…two things we are here for!
Needless to say, TUMS caught on and Howe began commercial production in 1930 in downtown St. Louis.
The factory complex remains the main manufacturing site for TUMS...
If the Jets keep playing the way they have been, we will all be needing some TUMS before too long... So let be the "first" team to give St. Louis a loss this season!
Go Jets Go!
Thanks to: Cool St. Louis Facts and Trivia to Impress Friends - Dogtown Pizza
We all know that St. Louis is the “Gateway to the West”, but here are a few fun facts that you may not know...
The tallest man in documented history was Robert Pershing Wadlow from St. Louis. He stood at 8 feet, 11.1 inches tall. I wonder if he could be a good pairing with Logan Stanley...
St. Louis is known to consume more BBQ sauce per capita than any other American city. That must be one messy city...
Before he became famous doing Skip The Dishes commercials, St. Louis' own John Hamm was a drama teacher, who taught Ellie Kemper of “The Office”...
The first successful parachute jump from a moving airplane was made by Captain Albert Berry in St. Louis in 1912...
7 Up was created by Charles Leiper Grigg, who launched his company, The Howdy Corporation, in 1920. He came up with the formula for the drink in 1929 which was originally named “Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda. Which we are really glad was shortened.
It was one of a number of “medicine products” popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Its name was later shortened to “7 Up Lithiated Lemon Soda” before being further shortened to just “7 Up” by 1936.
It contained lithium citrate, a mood-stabilizing drug, until 1948. No one really knows why the name was changed to contain the term 7 Up or shortened to just 7 Up.
In 1928, Jim Howe, a pharmacist in St. Louis, developed TUMS in the basement of his home while trying to figure out ways to treat his wife’s indigestion. A love story and less heartburn…two things we are here for!
Needless to say, TUMS caught on and Howe began commercial production in 1930 in downtown St. Louis.
The factory complex remains the main manufacturing site for TUMS...
If the Jets keep playing the way they have been, we will all be needing some TUMS before too long... So let be the "first" team to give St. Louis a loss this season!
Go Jets Go!
Thanks to: Cool St. Louis Facts and Trivia to Impress Friends - Dogtown Pizza