Fun little nonsensical factoids … the stuff of life.

1.           Baby platypuses (platypi?) are called “puggles.”

2.           Miami is the only major U.S. city founded by a woman, Julia Tuttle.

3.           Cleopatra, the Macedonian queen of ancient Egypt, (b. 70 BC – d. 30 BC) lived closer to
              the time of the founding of Pizza Hut (1958 AD) than the construction of the Great
              Pyramids of Giza (est. 2600 BC).

4.           Also in the birth year of Pizza Hut, the US Air Force lost a nuke somewhere in the waters
              off the coast near Savannah, Georgia.

5.           Octopuses (octopi? octopodes?  No.  English?  Octopuses) have three hearts, big brains,
              blue blood, and die from reproduction … the males right away, the females after eggs.

6.           Scotland, that lushly verdant birth land of bagpipes, William Wallace, haggis, Sherlock
              Holmes, and– most notably – golf, has the unicorn as its national animal.  Fitting.

7.           Heat, not sunlight, ripens tomatoes (keep that house hot).

8.           Every year, vending machines kill more humans than sharks. 
              (Stephen King’s next short story … Hey!  The man made a killer washing machine.)

9.           Copper door knobs are self-disinfecting …
              … solution for the nasties who don’t wash their hands?

10.        At present, Japan has more pets (16M) than children under the age of 15 (14.3M).

11.        Santa Claus, Indiana … Satans Kingdom, Vermont … Monkey’s Eyebrow, Kentucky … and
             Texas, New York, are all actual, real cities in America … cuz Whynot, North Carolina. 

12.        Without a visual focal point, humans (blind, blindfolded) cannot walk in a straight line,
              and will gradually walk in a circle.

13.        The king of hearts is the only king in the card deck without a mustache.

14.        North Koreans are limited to 28 state-permitted haircuts;
             men and women have 14 styles to choose from.

15.        Bats consume 3,000 insects every night – how do that sleep?

16.        Out of the 195 total countries in the world, only three do not use the metric system:
             Liberia, Myanmar, and the United States. [ummmm ….?!?!?]

17.        The metal band at the end of a pencil that holds the eraser in place?  A ferrule.

18.        The only one-syllable U.S. state?  Maine.  Those folks like to keep it simple.  Ayuh.

19.        Longest monosyllabic, single-vowel word?  Strengths.

20.        The Empire State Building has its own zip code – 10118. 

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