Back to fun … well, don’t get out much, so methinks metype of fun. Enjoy! Or not. Err’body got choices.
1. No only child has ever been a US president.
2. There are around 2,000 islands in the Caribbean but only 2-percent are populated by humans.
(Time to move!)
3. The sunflower spiral follows the Fibonacci Sequence.
(Design is intelligent …)
4. Elephants can’t jump.
(‘Cept on yo’haid … FAFO with a cow and her newbaby calf)
5. Maine is the only lower 48 state that borders only one other state.
(Alaska/Hawaii = red-headed stepkids of the union)
6. Only female mosquitoes bite.
(Figures.)
7. Star Wars premiered on just 32 U.S. screen in 1977.
(What a difference a genre makes … Disney/Deeznuts)
8. Before toilet paper ‘Murricans used corn cobs.
(Sounds about wipe – ha! sorrynotsorry)
9. Washington was not the first choice on the dollar bill … say hello to Salmon P. Chase.
(Who? Forebearer of the Chief Supreme, number 6 actually)
10. Guess the human body part that heals the fastest … “Nope!” / or maybe “You guessed it!”
The tongue.
11. Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards, and woodpeckers’ tongues wrap around their skulls.
12. Oysters can switch genders.
(Modern-day spirit mollusks)
13. The growth of bamboo stalks can be measured in MPH (0.00002, according to Guiness)
14. Figs are not considered vegan due to the presence of dead wasps within the fruitflesh.
(Hmmm, more protein.)
15. Peanut butter can be processed into diamonds.
(Just smear a little on her finger … she’ll like that. And two months’ pay will last for years)
16. Duncan Hines was a real person. Born in Kentucky on March 26, 1880, Mr. Hines was a traveling salesman looking for good food on the highways and byways of 1920’s America, and
inadvertently created America’s own Michelin Guide. In 1972, he allowed his name to be
attached to the now-infamous boxes of cake mix (and brownies … ummm … brownies …)
17. Cheese is the food most often shoplifted.
(As it should be. Cheese makes everything better. And garlic. Cheesy garlic, garlicky cheese)
18. Three-toed sloths have more neck bones than giraffes (9 v. 7). But an owl has 14.
19. Pisa’s Leaning Tower and SF’s Millennium Tower both are due to improper soil impaction.
(get your own dirt)
20. The Russians were 12 days late for the 1908 Olympics, using the Julian calendar rather than the
Gregorian. (And Cyrillic letters are insane … explains a lot.)
Thanks for reading!