As stated at the conclusion of yesterday’s post, today’s will be a continuation of absolutely arbitrary facts. I’ve always found random facts to be interesting to read, and considering how they’re simultaneously educational and entertaining, I figure there are worse things I could be occupying my free time with.
Sometimes I will research specific facts, and other times they’re as incidental as life itself. Either way, I hope you enjoy reading random facts to the same degree I do, because you’re about to engage with them directly. Again, this information comes from rd.com.
“Fact: The circulatory system is more than 60,000 miles long – If your entire circulatory system—we’re talking veins, arteries and capillaries—were laid out flat, it would stretch for more than 60,000 miles. That’s long enough to go around the Earth almost two and a half times! This is one of those mind-blowing facts that sounds made up (but isn’t).
“Fact: There are parts of Africa in all four hemispheres – For people whose education was largely focused on the Western world, it may be surprising to find out exactly how huge the continent of Africa is. For instance, it spans all four hemispheres and covers nearly 12 million square miles.
“Fact: Your eye can see a million different colors – Our bodies are made up of some bizarre features! According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, humans can distinguish approximately 10 million colors. That’s thanks to the cone cells in your retina, the back part of your eye that senses light and sends signals to your brain. These alerts allow you to perceive different colors. Some people who have a rare condition called tetrachromacy have an extra eye cone that enables them to see hundreds of millions of colors.
“Fact: German chocolate cake was invented in Texas – The ‘German’ part of German chocolate cake comes from a person’s name—and that person wasn’t even from Germany. Specifically, it’s named after Samuel German, who, in 1852, created the formula for a sweet baking chocolate bar for Baker’s Chocolate Company in Massachusetts, which subsequently (and confusingly!) named the product Baker’s German’s Sweet Chocolate. Fast-forward to June 13, 1957. The Dallas Morning Star published a recipe for a cake, invented and submitted by a reader identified as Mrs. George Clay, which used the chocolate. Over the years as the recipe made its way around the country, people lost the original reference for the name and thought German chocolate cake came from the country of Germany,” the web page states.
There ya have it, friends.
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