1.  Red Delicious apples are the most common crop of apples in the U.S. . . . but they’ve become extremely unpopular because they’re bred for looking good over tasting good.  So about two-thirds of them are now exported.

2.  The Sutter family from Viking, Alberta, Canada had seven boys.  Six of them went on to be NHL players in the ’70s and ’80s.  The seventh one won $10 million in the lottery.

3.  Women blink more often than men.  Women blink an average of 19 times per minute, men blink 11 times.

4.  Shakey’s Pizza was founded by a guy named Sherwood Johnson.  His nickname was “Shakey” because he got malaria during World War Two, which left him with nerve damage that made him shake.

Here is today’s bonus fact:

5.  No point in Michigan is more than 85 miles from a Great Lake.

(The Atlantic / Wikipedia / NIH / Wikipedia / MLive)