Random Facts

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I am bored.

That is all.


And now, some random facts about life you may or may not have known.

#1: The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
#2: Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
#3: It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
#4: Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
#5: The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year - Charles Lindbergh in 1927.
#6: Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.
#7: There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).
#8: The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
#9: American car horns beep in the tone of F.
#10: Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
#11: The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."
#12: A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.
#13: Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
#14: Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired"
#15: The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
#16: "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
#17: Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.
#18: The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
#19: On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.
#20: If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.


Yes, I'm just that bored.