Everybody loves trivia, loves finding out odd ball things about people, history, the world, etc.Here are some wild and crazy facts for this edition of “Shit We Should Know”. Just think how well prepared you’ll be if you ever get on Jeopardy!
Although they spend most of their lives on the ground, wild turkeys can fly. They roost in trees at nighttime and can reach flight speeds of 55 mph. On the ground they can reach speeds up to 30 mph.
Why is the Facebook site done in blue? It’s for the benefit of the founder Mark Zuckerberg’s benefit who suffers from red-green colorblindness, and blue is the color he can see best.
Every Dutch police car has a Teddy Bear in it. They carry teddy bears with them on the job in case they need to help out a traumatized child. Great idea they should do here.
The Hawaiian style pizza with the pineapple-ham combination and named after America’s most scenic state was actually invented by a pizza maker in Ontario, Canada in 1962.
July 4th is the day the U.S. celebrates it’s independence. It is also the date three ex Presidents, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe all passed away.
Do you hate mosquitos? Of course you do. Then move to Iceland, they are the only country in the world without them.
The Slinky was created by accident. Inventor Richard James, a naval engineer, was trying to create a spring that could help stabilize equipment on boats in choppy waters. The spring’s ability to move on its own proved more interesting, and became the prototype for the Slinky in 1943. More than 300 million Slinkys have been sold since it hit the market in 1945.
The Barbie and Ken dolls actually have real full names. Their full names are Barbara Millicent Roberts and Ken’s full name is Kenneth Carson.
There are seven towns in the U.S. named after Santa. There’s a town named Santa Claus in Arizona, Georgia, and Indiana, and ones named Saint Nicholas in Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania.
While the bright red color of a matador’s cape may seem to be what angers the bull, the animal can’t actually tell the color. They are generally red-green colorblind. So it is the motion of the cape that incenses them enough to charge.
When the Planters mascot got a makeover in 2010, Mr. Peanut was, and still is, voiced by the iron Man, actor Robert Downey Jr.
Need your truck fixed? You could have asked Queen Elizabeth. Why? Towards the end of World War II she actually worked as a truck mechanic. Right up until her death she still held a mechanics license.
Just for fun, Dolly Parton entered herself into a “Dolly Parton Lookalike Contest” for drag queens and didn’t even win first place. Matter of fact she didn’t even finish in the top three.
And last but not least……………
If you put some Viagra in a vase, it will make flowers stand up straight for a week beyond when they would normally wilt. So if it’s not working for you it will sure work for your plants.
