• Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison were all twenty-seven years old when they died.
• Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than by the U.S. Treasury.
• The color of chili is the best indication of its spiciness.
• Tweety used to be a baby bird without feathers until the censors decided he looked naked that way.
• Napoleon Bonaparte was afraid of cats.
• The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
• Colgate faced a big obstacle in marketing toothpaste in Spanish-speaking countries. Colgate translated into the command “go hang yourself.”
• The only real food U.S. astronauts are allowed to eat in space are pecans.

• Gerald Ford was once a male model.
• Catherine the Great relaxed by being tickled.
• Meteorologists claim they’re right 85 percent of the time.
• The man who voiced Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.
• In the U.S. more Frisbees are sold each year than baseballs, basketballs and footballs combined.
• A normal raindrop falls at about seven miles per hour.
• Vegetarians make up 4 percent of the U. S. population.

• Einstein’s last words were not understood by the attending nurse because he spoke to her in German.
• No president has been an only child.
• The concrete in the Hoover Dam will not be fully cured for another 500 years.
• The only bone never to have been broken in a ski accident is the one located in the inner ear.
• The word Aa is valid in Scrabble and is a type of lava
• Even today, 90% of the continental United States is still open space or farmland.
• Russia was the first country to ever legalize abortion.

Here are some random factoids that I have found today that you might not have known. That way, you can say that “you learn something new every day.”

• A female dog can be pregant anywhere from 9 – 12 weeks before giving birth
• A ShiTzu is known as being the hardest dog to train. It could take somewhere between 20 – 50 times for one to fully understand a command.
• According to the Guiness Book of World Records, the longest running TV show is NBC’s “Meet the Press” which started on November 6, 1947.
• The longest running daytime television soap opera is Guiding Light, which started one June 30, 1952.
• The Nile River in Egypt is the longest river on earth, measuring 4,145 miles (6,670 kilometers).