TRIVIA:
Did you know... (compiled by Class of 2013)

...that the first day (day zero) of our Julian calendar was set as noon of January 1, 4713 B.C.?

...that the Sun contains 99.85% of the mass in our solar system?
(see SolarViews.com)

...that an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain?

...that of all the months in the year, August has the highest percentage of births?

...that certain iridescent lipsticks contain fish scales?

...that little Iceland is the world's biggest consumer of Coca Cola?

...that someone named Chris Moneymaker became a famous poker player?

...that someone named Walter Russell Brain became a famous neurologist?

...that someone named Chuck Long became a professional football quarterback?

...that a young Filipino named Jaime Sin grew up to become a bishop and later a cardinal who was known as Cardinal Sin?

...that each king in a standard deck of playing cards represents a great king from history?

...that Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy?

...that Leonardo da Vinci sketched out the concept for a submarine over 100 years before the first one was ever built?

...that microwave cooking was an accidental discovery?

...that in 2011, 23 percent of U.S. teens owned a smartphone. In 2012, that number grew to 37 percent.

...that Superman originally couldn't fly? Like the John Carter character, Superman was only able to use his very powerful legs to jump very high and far. Actual hovering came later.

...that unless your food is mixed with saliva, you cannot taste it? Certain enzymes in saliva allow the process of tasting to occur.

...that a giraffe can clean its own ears with its 21-inch tongue?

...that birds need gravity to swallow?

...that the Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters?

...that lobster blood is colorless until it's exposed to oxygen. Then, it turns blue.

...that the matador's red cape is only red in order to hide the bull's blood - not to infuriate the bull?

...that the first owner of the Marlboro tobacco company died of lung cancer?

...that you don't die of drowning in quicksand - but you can suffocate?

...that writing down your worries just before taking an exam can boost your test score?

...that 11-year-old Frank Epperson was the accidental inventor of a famous frozen treat? On a freezing night, he accidentally left a fruity powdered soda-and-water mixture with a stir-stick in it outside overnight.  He originally called it an epsicle, but when he patented the idea 18 years later, he renamed it a Popsicle.

... that sesame seeds were so prized during the Middle Ages that in some parts of the world they were worth their weight in gold? (according to Factropolis)

... that the first hair dryer was powered by diesel fuel?
(according to Factropolis),

... that fire travels faster going uphill than it does going downhill?

...that light travels 300,000,000 meters per second while sound only travels about 340 meters per second?  This is why you see the lightning flash long before you hear the thunder.

...that coconuts may be more dangerous than sharks? Approximately 150 people per year die from coconuts on average, while only 10 people are killed by sharks in the average year!

...that Matt Groening named Homer, Marge, and Lisa Simpson after his own father, mother and sister, and that Bart got his name by mixing up the letters for the word "brat"?

... that Monrovia, CA has the earliest connection to the McDonald's restaurant chain? (see below)

"In 1937, Patrick McDonald opened a simple restaurant on Huntington Drive (Route 66) near the old Monrovia Airport called "The Airdrome" (hamburgers were ten cents, and all-you-can-drink orange juice was five cents); the restaurant remained there until 1940, when he and his two sons, Maurice and Richard, moved the building 40 miles (64 km) east to San Bernardino to the corner of West 14th Street and 1398 North E Street renaming it "McDonald's". In 1955, milkshake machine salesman Ray Kroc made a franchising deal with the McDonald brothers. In 1961 Kroc purchased the business rights for $2.7 million. For years after the McDonald's Corporation claimed the 1955 Des Plaines, Illinois McDonald's to be the first (it was the first location franchised through Ray Kroc), and only recently has recognized San Bernardino. Some, though, claim Monrovia to be the "real" birthplace, which is subjective since McDonald's, as it was first franchised in 1953 in Phoenix, Arizona and Downey, California, came into being following the development of the "Speedee Service System" in 1948." (according to Wikipedia)