Modern world can always use a little more levity, thus ergo bit of silly to share … must say enjoy the random nonsense, like candy for the brain. Empty of value, but oh-so satisfying. Peruse!
1. Detroit is north of Canada.
2. Dogs understand about 100 words.
(whereas cats would never deign to speak the language of rubes)
3. Frogs don’t drink.
(should probably start … a little social lubrication might stave off extinction)
4. The human body produces enough heat in 30 minutes to boil a gallon of water.
(the Matrix looking like a documentary)
5. Almost 15 percent of Los Angeles is used as a parking lot.
(After the ’25 fires more like 30)
6. Brunch was “invented” in 1895 as a post-hangover meal.
7. A baby puffin is called a “puffling.”
(sounds like a brunch food)
8. Theodor Seuss Geisel, bka Dr. Seuss, wrote “Green Eggs & Ham” on a bet.
(must have been trippin on acid for the Grinch)
9. Toyota confirms that the official plural of “Prius” is … “Prii.”
(“On the road of life, there will always be a Prius holding up the lane”)
10. The space between the eyebrows is called the “glabella.”
(Sophia Hadjipanteli is so mad right now)
11. Pistachio nuts can spontaneously combust.
(not-so-fun fact: there about 200 claimed instances of humans spontaneously bursting into
flames, all the way back to the 1400’s [a young knight ‘foo-woofed’ in front of his parents] to a
76YO Irishman found badly burned in his flat in with no accelerants nearby …
coroner’s official cause of death? SHC. Nice.)
12. Guess the most common password.
(Yup – 123456)
13. To save lives, Volvo gave away … for free … at no charge … the patent for the 3-point seatbelt.
(good all over Volvo!!! Now there’s a company worth a car payment … that XC60 is sweet)
14. Name the 26-sided shape.
(greatly impossible Scrabble word … “rhombicuboctahedron” … say five times fast)
15. Largest falafel, or “ground peabean burger”? Made/cooked in 2019, near the Dead Sea in Jordan,
weighing in at 223 pounds, or slightly more than 100 grams. (that’s a lotta notburger)
16. Forget Kansas / England is hit with the most tornados per square mile in the world.
(guess we’re not in Leicestershire upon TyneMoors anymore … click those ruby pumps, qeen!)
17. Pope Francis once worked as a bouncer at a nightclub.
18. The U.S. Navy uses video game controllers for some submarines functions.
(so did the Titan — “BOOM/crunch”)
19. Nomophobia – as opposed to no more fears — means the fear of not having a cellphone.
(so guess we’re all afflicted … first/second/third world problems)
20. On the Liberty Bell and in the U.S. Constitution, Pennsylvania is spelled “Pensylvania.”
And Arizona is the last of the lower 48 to be admitted to the Union (on Valentine’s Day, 1912).
Brain candy.