AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING CVIII

1. Goats have rectangular pupils - allowing them greater peripheral vision.

2. COSTCO sells more hotdogs than all the major league baseball stadiums combined.

3. According to Hormel's numbers, Hawaiians consume 7 million cans of SPAM a year - 5 cans per person per year. But residents of Guam take the honors by far - consuming more than three times that much -16 cans per person per year.

4. Traditional Russian nesting dolls are called MATRYOSHKA dolls. 

5. The rarest M&M color is brown.

6. Honey never goes bad.

7. The country with the highest per capita chocolate consumption in the world is Switzerland.

8. George Orwell coined the word DOUBLETHINK in 1949 for his dystopian novel 1984. It means the power of holding two contradictory  beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them. 

9. These are the exact words of an early critic:  

   Can't act, can't sing, balding, can dance a little

    His subject: Fred Astaire