Three Facts & A Fib: Why Saffron Is So Expensive / Correct Pronunciation of ‘Everest’ / Inventor of Clasp On Bras

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1.  Ever wonder why saffron is so crazy expensive?  It takes 75,000 saffron flowers to make one pound of saffron spice, because only a small amount of each saffron flower is used . . . AND all the harvesting must be done by hand.

2.  The correct pronunciation of Mount Everest is “eev-rist.”  It’s named after Sir George Everest, a surveyor from Wales, and that’s how his last name was pronounced.

3.  There are 745,000 miles of cables under the ocean that power the Internet.

4.  The person who invented and patented the clasp on bras was . . . Benjamin Franklin.

AND THE FIB IS (Scroll down)

#4!

The person who invented and patented the clasp on bras was . . . MARK TWAIN (?!?!?)

SOURCES:

(Britannica / Mental Floss / CNN / The Atlantic)