AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING LX

1. According to Digital Marketing.org, 3.96 billion people use social media today, which accounts for 51% of the population of the world. On average, global internet users spend 2 hours and 24 minutes on social media sites every day. The U.S. average is 2 hours and 3 minutes. In terms of countries, the people of the Philippines spend the most time on social media, with an average of 3 hours and 53 minutes each day. 

2. According to global tech care company Asurion, Americans check their smartphones an average of 96 times a day - once every 10 minutes.

3. Humans are the only mammals that have chins.

4.The Beatles named their band in honor of Billy Holly and the Crickets.

5. Peanuts are not true nuts, although they are similar nutritionally. Peanuts are legumes and grow underground - like peas and lentils. 

6. Cashews grow on trees and have a toxic shell.

7. The Statue of Liberty was proposed in 1865 by Edouard de Laboulaye, a French political thinker, expert on the U.S. Constitution, and an abolitionist, as a gift from France to the United States. It was meant to commemorate the alliance of France and the United States during the American Revolution. Yet it meant much more to those who proposed the gift. Laboulaye and his supporters wanted the monument to commemorate the perseverance of freedom and democracy in the United States and to honor the work of the late President Abraham Lincoln - particularly the freeing of the slaves. Laboulaye hoped that by calling to attention the recent achievements of the United States, the French people would be inspired to create their own democracy in the face of a repressive monarchy gripping France at that time.

8. M&M's were originally (and exclusively) created to allow easy transport of chocolate to soldiers in 1941 (WWII). The hard shell kept the chocolate from melting. The two M's stand for the owners of the company: Forest E. Mars, Sr., the founder of Newark Company and Bruce Murrie, son of Hershey Chocolate's president William F.R. Murrie, who had a 20% share in the product.