New Jersey had 4 Governors in 8 days in early 2002. The shortest term of those was served by John Farmer Jr. for 90 minutes.
100 Mind-Blowing Farmer Facts
Harry Burnett Reese, the founder of Reese’s Chocolate, was a former shipping foreman and a dairy farmer for Milton S. Hershey, the founder of Hershey’s Chocolate.
Glitter was invented by a farmer. You wouldn’t think something as sparkly and extravagant as glitter was created by a farmer. Henry Ruschmann of New Jersey was a cattle rancher who crushed plastic in 1934 to dispose of it. The resulting powdered form is what we now know as glitter.
A farmer once grew a 910-pound pumpkin and turned it into a boat. People can be strange. One of the craziest funny facts is an actual news headline: For 4 years, Tennessee farmer Justin Ownby grew an almost 1,000-pound pumpkin. When he reached his goal, he hollowed it out and rode it as a boat in a nearby pond.
After landing in Ireland after her first solo Atlantic flight, a farmer asked Amelia Earhart where she was from. When she said America, he almost didn’t believe her!