AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING XXIII

1. Most department stores tend to play slower music, in order to slow down customers and keep them shopping longer. The opposite is true for restaurants.

 

2. "A Boy Named Sue" wasn't written by Johnny Cash. Shel Silverstein wrote it. 

3. Major League Baseball umpires are required to wear black underwear in case they split their pants.

4. You can't tickle yourself.

5. A sneeze shoots through the air at 100 miles per hour, sending 10,000 germs flying.

6. Pope Gregory IV once declared war on cats because he believed black cats were used by Satan. His declaration led to the mass extermination of cats. That lack of cats led to a rat infestation which, in turn, led to the spread of the Black Plague.

7. Elephants suck on their trunks for comfort.

8. A wedding at Disney World's Cinderella Castle costs $50,000.

9. Kim, Lee, and Park - in that order - make up slightly more than half the surnames in South Korea.

10. Oregon's Crater Lake, at 1,943 ft. deep, is the deepest in the United States and one of the deepest in the world.