I warned you at the conclusion of yesterday’s post that today’s would be a continued discussion of random, interesting facts, and here we are. I could probably dedicate 100 posts to the topic of random facts, but I realize reading up on arbitrary facts isn’t necessarily everyone’s cup of tea, so I shall abstain.
I figure a few posts sprinkled in here and there are sufficient.
So, as promised, here are more random, neat facts, brought to you by cosmopolitan.com.
- “Amy Poehler was only seven years older than Rachel McAdams when she took on the role of ‘cool mom’ in Mean Girls. Rachel was 25 as Regina George – Amy was 32 as her mum.
- “People are more creative in the shower. When we take a warm shower, we experience an increased dopamine flow that makes us more creative.
- “Baby rabbits are called kits. Cute!
- “The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland. It was apparently chosen because of its connection with dominance and chivalry as well as purity and innocence in Celtic mythology.
- “The first aeroplane flew on December 17, 1903. Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with their first powered aircraft, aka the first airplane.
- “Venus is the only planet to spin clockwise. It travels around the sun once every 225 Earth days but it rotates clockwise once every 243 days.
- “Nutmeg is a hallucinogen. The spice contains myristicin, a natural compound that has mind-altering effects if ingested in large doses.
- “A 73-year-old bottle of French Burgundy became the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold at auction in 2018, going for $558,000 (approx £439,300). The bottle of 1945 Romanee-Conti sold at Sotheby for more than 17 times its original estimate of $32,000.
- “Competitive art used to be an Olympic sport. Between 1912 and 1948, the international sporting events awarded medals for music, painting, sculpture and architecture. Shame it didn’t catch on, the famous pottery scene in Ghost could have won an Olympic medal as well as an Academy Award for the best screenplay.
- “A chef’s hat has 100 pleats. Apparently, it’s meant to represent the 100 ways you can cook an egg. Wonder if Gordon Ramsay knows that.
- “In 2014, there was a Tinder match in Antarctica. Two research scientists matched on the global dating app in the most remote part of the world – a man working at the United States Antarctic McMurdo Station and a woman camping a 45-minute helicopter ride away. What are the chances?!
- “The Spanish national anthem has no words. The ‘Marcha Real’ is one of only four national anthems in the world (along with those of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and San Marino) to have no official lyrics.
- “The Japanese word ‘Kuchi zamishi’ is the act of eating when you’re not hungry because your mouth is lonely. We do this all the time,” the website states.
Feel free to check out all of the 75 facts listed on the website, linked above, if you so fancy.
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