Here are some fun facts to help get you through the day and look like the most informed person at the water cooler…
Fun (and not-so-fun) facts:
- Adult cats only meow at humans, not other cats. Kittens meow to their mother, but once they get a little older, they no longer meow to other cats.
- No century can ever start on a Sunday, Wednesday, or Friday. There’s a long mathematical explanation for why, but basically, because of how the calendar repeats, new centuries have to start on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, or Saturdays.
- The all-time high temperature in Antarctica is 65 degrees, and it happened in 2020. The high before that was 63 degrees in 2015.
- Steve Ells, the guy who founded Chipotle, was an art history major in college.
- Bob Ross painted 381 pictures in the 11 years “The Joy of Painting” was on PBS. And 91% of them contained at least one “happy little tree.”
(ASPCA / Gizmodo / WMO / Wikipedia / FiveThirtyEight)
Strange and trending news:
- Today is National Mimosa Day. And National ‘Do Something Good for Your Neighbor’ Day. (So just let me know when I should stop by . . .)
- A couple of researchers from the University of Michigan are putting PEE on PEONIES. They’re trying it as a sustainable, “urine-based fertilizer.” (Full Story)
- A woman stole a Tesla from a resort in Las Vegas last Friday . . . and she was caught after crashing it into ANOTHER Tesla at a charging station. (Full Story)
- A 19-year-old woman in Florida was arrested for driving recklessly. She told the cop that getting arrested was “on her bucket list since high school.” (Full Story)
- Jerry Seinfeld had a bit about pilots losing the keys to the plane. And last week, some Delta pilots somehow got themselves locked out of the cockpit . . . and had to crawl through a WINDOW from the outside to get in. (This was while the plane was on the ground, obviously.) (Full Story) (Here’s a video.)
- A Red Robin location had a problem with people driving their cars into a rock in the parking lot. So they fixed the situation . . . not by moving the rock . . . but by having a former employee PAINT A BURGER on the rock. (???) (Full Story)
- A new “safety hack” on TikTok suggests that kids be taught to CURSE instead of scream if someone tries to grab them. (Full Story) (Speaking of TikTok, a guy has a hack for Post-It Notes.)
