AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING CLXXIII

1. Sante Fe, New Mexico, founded in 1610, is the oldest capital city in the United States.

2. 68% of the population of California lives on 22% of the state's land area -  in the 15 counties bordering the coast. 

3. The Burpee is a full-body, compound exercise combining a squat, plank, optional push-up, and jump into one fluid movement. It is named after Royal H. Burpee, an American physiologist who invented the exercise in 1939 as a quick way to test physical fitness. The exercise was created for his Ph.D. thesis at Columbia University to assess cardiovascular and muscular fitness without equipment.

4. London's Heathrow Airport was named for the ancient hamlet of Heath Row - a row of houses on a heath demolished to build the airport.

5. To "grok" something is an informal, but widely used term that means to fully and emphatically understand something - to absorb it into your consciousness. The word was coined by Robert A. Heinlien in his novel, Stranger in a Strange Land.

6. The HMS Beagle was the name of Charles Darwin's ship.

7. There are an estimated 390 billion individual trees in the Amazon rainforest.  

8. Famously short review of the 1948 musical, Isn't It Romantic?: NO

9. Every US banknote (paper bill) weighs exactly one gram.

10. Senate and senile both come from the same Latin root word, senex, meaning old, or old man.