1.  A large part of Antarctica was covered in rainforest approximately 90 million years ago.

2.  The first black video game character was in an Atari game called “Basketball” in 1979.

3.  During the 1960s “Batman” TV series, Robin said 356 different things after the word “Holy!” in his catchphrase.  They include “Holy armadillo!” . . . “Holy hamburger!” . . . “Holy grammar!” . . . and “Holy unrefillable prescriptions!”

4.  The International Space Station is the most expensive thing that’s ever been built.  The estimated cost is more than $100 billion.

Here is today’s bonus fact:

5.  Because there’s a toy in every Happy Meal, McDonald’s is the world’s largest distributor of toys.  On a similar note, the largest producer of tires in the world is . . . Lego.

(LiveScience / Vintage Computing / 1966 Batman Pages / Guinness World Records / The Fiscal Times)