1. Ninety of the 388 games released for the Nintendo 64 have the number “64” somewhere in their title, like
“Super Mario 64”
and
“Madden Football 64”
. That’s about one out of every four games.
2. The world’s deepest underwater cave is in the Czech Republic. It’s at least 1,552 feet deep . . . that’s as far as anyone’s been able to go, and they still haven’t found the bottom.
3.
Dennis Wilson
was the only member of the
Beach Boys
who actually surfed.
4. Kellogg’s ripped off the idea for Pop-Tarts from Post. Post announced they were going to be making a pastry for your toaster called Country Squares, so Kellogg’s quickly developed their own version, and got them out first in 1964.
Here is today’s bonus fact:
5. The average human body is 98.2 degrees, not 98.6. We got the number 98.6 from a German study in 1868 that used less accurate thermometers than we have today.
(The average body temperature is also
dropping
about 0.05 degrees every decade.)
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