Here are some random facts for you.
1. When humans and dogs look each other in the eye, each species produces “oxytocin”, the same hormone that bonds mothers to their children.
2. There’s a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 19 in Arizona where all the signs only use kilometers, not miles. It’s a relic from the Carter administration, when they were trying to get the U.S. to switch to the metric system.
There’s been a push to change it recently, but many locals want to keep it as-is.
3. In real life, gun silencers don’t work like they do in movies. A gun with a silencer still makes a noise about as loud as a police siren, that’s about 100 times quieter than a gun WITHOUT a silencer, but still pretty loud.
4. You’re about HALF AN INCH taller in the morning than at night, because the discs in your spine have been relaxing all night. Over the course of the day, they squash down a little bit, due to gravity and physical activity.
5. The most lopsided game in college football history was in 1n 1916. Georgia Tech won 222-to-0 over a school from Tennessee called Cumberland College.
(Science.org / Geography Realm / Today I Found Out / Alibaba / Wikipedia)
