AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING CXXVIII

1. An avocado never ripens on a tree, so farmers can use trees as a way to store and keep avocados fresh for up to seven months.

 

2. Mr. Rogers always mentioned out loud that he was feeding his fish, because a young blind viewer asked him to do so. She wanted to know the fish were OK.

3. China owns all the pandas in the world. They rent them out for approximately one million dollars per year.

4. The space between your eyebrows is called the glabella.

5. According to the OED, PUBLICLY is the most commonly misspelled word in the English language.

6. Opossums don't "play dead." When frightened, they become over-excited and pass out.

7. Andrew Jackson's parrot was kicked out of his funeral for swearing.

8. Volvo gave away its 1962 patent for its revolutionary three-point seat belt for free - in order to save lives.

9. Damascus, Syria is the oldest capital city in the world - continuously inhabited since circa 2500 B.C.E.

10. The land-measure term "acre" (43,560 sq. ft.) was decided upon by how much ground a farmer could plow in one day.