To impress your friends and dazzle your enemies!!
- Princess Leia’s ‘cinnamon bun’ hairstyle was inspired by 18th Century women of the Mexican Revolution.
- Kingsford charcoal briquettes were originally invented by car maker Henry Ford.
- Who produces the most waste in the world? Believe it or not, it’s Canada! The U.S. is #3.
- North Korea has its own basketball team but plays with an entirely different points system.
- A bank in Northern Italy accepts large wheels of parmesan cheese as collateral.
- Until 1984, buildings in Philadelphia could not exceed the tallest building in the city…the one with the statue of William Penn on it.
- Got a school loan debt? Then you gotta love billionaire William F. Smith who, in 2019, paid off 400 student debts from Morehouse College….and their parents’ loans as well!
- The average body temperature (98.6) have been going down to a new normal of 97.4.
- Back in 2016, Disney came this close to buying Twitter. Thankfully, it didn’t!!
- What’s the most expensive MLB hot dog sold? The Washington Nationals at $7 a dog!
- Who-done-it author Agatha Christie is the most translated writer in the world, followed by William Shakespeare, and Jules Verne at #3.
- Queen Elizabeth eats a slice of chocolate biscuit cake every single day, even when traveling.