Five Random Facts for Thursday

Here are some random facts for you.

1.  When a drunk zebrafish is introduced to a group of sober ones, the sober zebrafish will follow the drunk individual as their leader.

2.  An octopus doesn’t have eight arms, it has six arms and two legs.  Two of its limbs work like legs and help it move while the six arms grab food.

3.  It costs you approximately 21 to 29 cents every year to use your turn signals, based on the amount of energy they use and the tiny amount of gas that takes.  (It is probably a tad over 30 cents now, since the math on this was done back in 2017.  Especially if you drive a lot, or live in California.)

4.  The tallest men in the world are in the Netherlands, with an average height of just over six feet.  The shortest are in Indonesia, with an average height of 5-foot-2.  (The American average is 5-foot-9-and-a-half.)

5.  The word “Ye”, like in “Ye Olde Shoppe”, is actually pronounced “The.”  In medieval English, people used a “y” to abbreviate “th.”

 

(Wikipedia / Reuters / Jalopnik / World Population Review / Gizmodo)