Because everyone needs a few fun facts on Friday!

  • The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours (11 days) by Randy Gardner in 1965.
  • There is approximately 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.
  • Antartica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level.
  • The thickest skin, approximately 1/5 of an inch, is found on the upper back. The thinnest skin are on the eyelids.
  • 45% of Americans do not know that the sun is a star.
  • In Disney’s “Fantasia” the Sorcerer’s name is “Yensid,” which is Disney spelled backwards.
  • Shirley Temple was the youngest movie start to win an Academy Award in 1934 at the age of 6.
  • In the Northern Hemisphere, water goes down drains counterclockwise. In the Southern Hemisphere, it goes down clockwise.
  • 57% of Americans reuse pretty wrapping paper.
  • The name of the Taco Bell dog is Gidget.

On This Day in History

Births

  • 1892| Charles Dickens
  • 1895 | Babe Ruth
  • 1911 | Ronald Reagan
  • 1940 | Tom Brokaw
  • 1950 | Natalie Cole
  • 1962 | Garth Brooks

Deaths

  • 1991 | Danny Thomas (actor, founder of St. Jude Children’s Hospital)
  • 2015 | Dean Smith (legendary coach of UNC men’s basketball)

Other Significant Events of Note

  • 1949 | Joe DiMaggio becomes the first $100,000 per year baseball player for the New York Yankees.
  • 1964 | Beatles arrive in the U.S. launching the “British Invasion.”