Fun Facts!

Did you know....?

No number before 1,000 contains the letter A.

All the electricity powering the internet weighs the same as an apricot

A hippo's jaw opens wide enough to fit a sports car inside.

A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.

A giraffe’s tongue is so long it can clean its own ears.

Polar bears have black skin under their white fur

Kangaroos can’t walk backward.

A single strand of spaghetti is called a spaghetto.

McDonald's owns upwards of 35,000 locations in the world!

Your odds of becoming President are 1 out of 10,000,000!

Harvard University was founded 16 years after the settlement of Plymouth, MA (which was in 1620)!

If you are reading this, you are alive!

You were once the youngest person in world history!

The oldest confirmed person to ever live was 122 (she lived to meet Vincent van Gogh and see Windows 95 go on sale in the same lifetime)!

The Royal Mint in the UK has been printing money since the year 886!

The Hartford Courant is the oldest continuously operated newspaper in the United States, being printed since 1764!

On the Mayflower, children had to drink beer because safe drinking water was scarce!

Boston is home to Boston Common, the oldest public park in the country (operating since 1634)!

Mickey Mouse's Steamboat Willie design entered the public domain on January 1, 2024!

Henry VIII appointed a man named Sir Brian Tuke to be "Master of the Posts" in 1516. This would later become the Royal Mail, the UK's version of USPS!

Venus is the only planet to spin clockwise