Enough of the doom gloom … Dilly-dilly! Off with his head! Dilly, dilly.
“My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
“I didn’t ask for the anal probe.”
“Ididn’t askfor the anal probe.”
“I didn’t askfor the anal probe.”
1. Every time a deck of cards is shuffled it results in a combination that never existed before
(unless you’re a magician).
2. Woolly mammoths and construction of the Egyptians pyramids are on the same historical
timeline.
3. Dentists (12000 B.C.) have been around longer than prostitutes (2400 B.C.).
4. Africa occupies all four hemispheres
(and is waaaaaaay bigger than most maps suggest).
5. A hippo’s jaw opens wide enough to fit a two-door sports coupe inside.
(and they body about 500 people annually, more than sharks … nice.)
6. Most wasabi ain’t wasabi; it is horseradish dyed green.
7. When Mike Ilitch, founder of Little Caesar’s Pizza and owner of Detroit Red Wings, discovered
81yo Rosa Parks had been beaten and robbed in her own home, he quietly moved her to a safer
neighborhood and paid her rent until she died in 2005.
[Pizza and hockey … of course he was a most excellent dude.]
8. Approximately 4-percent of the sand on Normandy Beach, off the northern coast of France,
consists of shrapnel from June 6, 1944.
9. The average Swede eats more than 20 pounds of chocolate every year.
(“Is this chocolate or poop? … Chocolate or poop?!” (Licks. Smiles.) “Chocolate.”)
10. A starfish can invert its stomach. [shudder]
11. Metallica is the first (and only) band to play on all seven continents.
[Enter Sandman, indeed]
12. Driving for NASCAR is a great workout; drivers can lose 10 pounds of water weight during a race
from high temperatures. [Still don’t think they’re athletes, Daunte?]
13. Guess the only word in the English language that ends in letters “MT.”*
14. Tiger stripes are like fingerprints – unique to each animal.
15. A year on Venus is shorter than a day on Venus.
[wat/yehrite. It takes Venus about 225 of our days to orbit the Sun (i.e., a year),
while the Yellow Planet takes 243 our days to complete a single rotation on its axis (i.e., a day),
and in the opposite direction … the Sun rises on Venus (once every 117 of our days) in the west
and sets in the east) … the Universe is such big fun]
16. Supermarket apples can be a year old.
17. Miriam Rodriguez hunted down Mexican cartel members responsible for her daughter’s January
2014 abduction and eventual death … she was gunned down on Mother’s Day in 2017.
[RIP Mamá Oso Vigilante]
18. According to the Federal Reserve, a US dollar bill lasts 6.6 years (and six days?)
19. In September 1793, the first hot air balloon passengers were a sheep, a duck, and a rooster.
Two months later, the Montgolfier brothers launched their balloon in Paris, the first manned
balloon ride.
20. Cards Against Humanity bought an island in Maine to preserve the local flora and fauna …
called Hawaii 2.
*”Dreamt.