I have taken a few weeks off from Friday Fun Facts posts. But the wait is over! Here are a few random and/or useless trivia that will impress your friends!
- A person cannot fold a piece of paper in half more than seven times.
- Diamonds mined in Brazil are much harder than those found in Africa.
- The pound sign or hashtag (#) is called an “octothorp.”
- The iris membrane controls the amount of light that enters your eye.
- The shortest French word with all five vowels is “”oiseau” meaning bird.
- Gorillas cannot swim.
- Flossing daily actually reduces your risk of getting heart disease.
- The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
- Blueberry juice is a good memory booster.
- “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.”
This Date in History
- 1305 – Sir William Wallace died
- 1850 – 1st US National Women’s Rights Convention convenes in Worcester, Massachusetts
- 1904 – Snow Chains Patented
- 1927 – Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers
- 1933 – 1st TV boxing match – Archie Sexton & Laurie Raiteri in London
- 1966 – First Photograph of the Earth Taken From the Orbit of the Moon
- 2005 – Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas, later becoming a category 5 hurricane
