The oldest amusement park in the world is Bakken, in Klampenborg, Denmark. It was founded in 1583.

 

 

Don Larsen was the first pitcher to throw a perfect baseball game during a World Series. The game was New York vs Brooklyn, on October 8, 1956.

 

The Australian tennis player Rod Emerson has won more Grand Slam event singles titles (12) than any other player in history.

 

Biting a garter snake was once thought to help cure a toothache.

Eight species of bats can be found in Connecticut.

 

A red-tailed hawk weighs on average three pounds.

 

Two species of vultures are found in Connecticut, the black and turkey.

 

One bat can eat as many as 1,200 mosquitoes in one night.

 

The favorite food of great horned owls are skunks.

 

Some salamanders breathe through their skin.

 

 

Longtailed weasels eat half their body weight each day.

 

The longest snake in Connecticut, the black rat snake, can reach lengths of seven feet.

 

A hawk’s eyesight is so good it can see a mouse from a half-mile up in the air.

 

About 75 to 100 black bears live in Connecticut.

 

The call of a pickerel frog sounds like a human snore.

 

Coca-Cola was originally marketed as a medicine.

 

Diet Coke was introduced in 1982.

 

Coca-Cola first entered the Chinese market in 1928.

 

Plymouth Rock is the most famous boulder in the world.

 

 

In 1954 a citizen of Plymouth, Mass., sent a piece of  Plymouth Rock to President Eisenhower as a gift.