No Time for Updates
Yeah, so it’s been a while, and it will be a while longer, but here are a few interesting “fun facts” than can keep those who still glance at this page preoccupied while waiting for this sites official launch.
- # No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times. (This was proven false by a 16 year old girl I believe)
- # The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
- # Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.
- # A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.
- # Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
- # Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning
- # The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
- # All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn’t like being seen wearing them in public.
- # Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
- # The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
- # The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
- # Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
- # Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter “e.”
- # The largest pumpkin weighed 377 pounds.
- # The largest cabbage weighed 144 pounds.
- # Pinocchio was made of pine.
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