Penny For Your Thoughts
By: Nancy Whitaker
Last week I wrote some useless facts which I actually found interesting. So getting my nose back to the internet I found some more interesting tidbits.
Did you know?
1. Due to a genetic defect, cats can’t taste sweet things. (Yum glad I am not a cat)
2. Queen Elizabeth II is a trained mechanic. (Awesome)
3. Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer. (Yeah sure he was)
4. The average American spends about 2.5 days a year looking for lost items. (That’s true)
5. Apple seeds contain cyanide.
6. The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
7. Montpelier, Vermont, is the only U.S. capital without a McDonald’s. (Poor Montpelier Vermont)
8. There’s a city called “Rome” on every continent except Antarctica.
9. There are around 16 million people alive today that are direct descendants of Genghis Khan.
10. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
11. Your body contains about 100,000 miles of blood vessels.
12. Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly button. (Wonder how anyone found that out)
13. A blob of toothpaste is called a ‘nurdle’.
14. If you plug your nose, you can’t tell the difference between an apple, a potato, and an onion.
15. Most babies are conceived in December.
16. Slinkies are 82 feet long.
17. Most car horns are in the key of F. (This I have to try)
18. New Jersey grows two-thirds of the world’s eggplants.
19. Almonds are members of the peach family.
20. Riding roller coasters can help you pass kidney stones. (What a nice cure)
21. Marie Curie’s 100-year-old belongings are still radioactive.
Are you surprised that Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly button? Or, most cars honk in the Key of F? Well, everyone get tuned up and let’s all honk our car horns simultaneously and see if it is Key of F and I’ll give you a Penny for your thoughts.
