1. 60% of the geysers in the world are in Yellowstone National Park.
2. Americans throw away around $62 million worth of coins every year.
3. The highest scoring word you can play on the first turn in Scrabble is . . . muzjiks. That's a word for Russian peasants and will earn 128 points. Of course, you'd have to randomly start with those exact seven letters, so it'll probably never happen to you.
Although it DID happen to a guy named Jesse Inman at the National Scrabble Championship in 2008 . . . sort of. He played muzjiks using a blank tile for the “U” as his opening word for 126 points.
4. TGIF! A guy named Jesse Frederick wrote and performed the theme songs for
“Full House”
,
“Family Matters”
, and
“Step By Step”
. He also wrote the
“Perfect Strangers”
theme song, but didn't perform it.
Here is today's bonus fact:
5. San Marino in Europe is the only country in the world with more cars than people.
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Yellowstone Park
/
Bloomberg
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Mental Floss
/
Kempa
/
Wikipedia
)
