Here are some random facts for you.
1. If you stretched out all the DNA in your body, it would reach from the moon and back, and back around 150,000 times.
2. Marvel Comics saved a TON of money by arguing in court that the “X-Men” characters are MUTANTS, not humans. Importing toys based on human beings means paying a tax rate almost DOUBLE the rate of importing non-human toys.
3. The fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. The name combines elements meaning “hippopotamus” (large), “monster” (huge), “sesquipedalian” (measuring a foot and a half long), and “phobia” (fear).
4. Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” managed to hit number 14 on the Billboard chart for Hot Dance Club Songs in 1992.
5. It’s illegal to import dark-colored cars into the country of Turkmenistan. White is considered a lucky color there, so the government only wants people to drive light-colored cars.
(Forbes / Radiolab /BBC / Wikipedia / Rferl / Wikipedia)
