Here are some random facts for you.
1. The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) baseball team once had a decade-long, 228-game losing streak, lasting from 2003 to 2013. And in 2011, Caltech’s men’s basketball team ended a 310-game conference losing streak. You could say athletics aren’t the top priority at Caltech.
2. Lobster wasn’t always considered a delicacy, before the late 1800s, lobsters were called the “cockroaches of the sea” and fed to prisoners to save money.
3. CNN has a video clip ready to air if the world is about to end. It’s a band playing the song “Nearer, My God, to Thee”.
4. There have been more than 20,000 Major League Baseball players in history, and just ONE had a last name that started with the letter X: Leovigildo Xiqués, who played in the ’40s.
There are 56 whose last name started with Q, and 106 with Z.
5. There are 11 U.S. states that only have one area code: Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming.
(ESPN / The Vintage News / The Guardian / Baseball Reference / All Area Codes)
