Happy last Friday in January! Hope 2025 has gotten off to a great start for you. This week, I am offering up some random, useless facts circulating on the Internet. I won’t guarantee they are all true, but my guess is you will probably try to verify at least one of them.
Enjoy!
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour – could this be the next big diet craze?
Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie – so you might have to bang your head against the wall a few more times after getting the mail together.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “Its A Wonderful Life”.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds – I think I know some people who are part goldfish.
The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill – you want to get a magnifying glass right now, don’t you?
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world? – so much for “your special day.”
In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said “Play It Again, Sam.”
Sherlock Holmes never said “Elementary, My Dear Watson.”
A Cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death – wonder what it does for those nine days?
A Boeing 747’S wingspan is longer than the Wright Brother’s first flight.
Charlie Chaplin once won third place in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest.
“Hang On Sloopy” is the Official Rock Song of Ohio.
In 1977 there were 37 Elvis impersonators in the world. In 1993, there were 48,000. At this rate, it will not be long before one out of every three people will be an Elvis impersonator.
Thought for the Week
Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau
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