AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING XCIII

1. The World Memory Championships are held annually in venues around the world, in which competitors, (" mental athletes,") memorize as much information as possible within a given period of time.  At the highest levels of competition, some of the events include: Memorizing the order of a deck of cards in under two minutes, memorizing randomly generated numbers and  binary digits (0's and 1's), and identifying photos of people with their first and last names written below them - and then given back without the names. This is a popular event, because who hasn't remembered a face but forgotten the name?

2. Among the 12 signs of the Zodiac, Libra is the only one whose symbol is neither human or animal.

3. Fortunately for the mother, the quills of a baby porcupine are soft at birth. They become completely hardened within 30 minutes.

4. The first You Tube video to reach 10 billion views is Baby Shark.

5. The origin of the word "Love" in tennis - meaning zero - goes back to the representation of zero as a goose egg. The French word for egg is "l'oeuf" - no too far from Love.

6. If Nero fiddled while Rome burned, he must have been time-traveling. The violin was not invented until the early 1500's. 

7. An acre = 48,560 square feet. 640 acres = 1 square mile.

8. Forty is the only number, when spelled out, that has its letters in alphabetical order.

9. The teeth of rodents never stop growing.

10. The Eiffel Tower weight 9,441 tons.