Did You Know
The idea of cats having multiple lives is found around the world, but the number of lives is inconsistent. While Americans say a cat has nine lives, Germans and Italians say a cat has seven lives, and in many regions of the Middle East, they are believed to have only six.
February, thanks to its already short length and leap days, has missed a full moon several times in recorded history. In 1999, not only did February have no full moon, but a misalignment between the human and lunar calendars led to January and April having two full moons.
95 percent of cranberries are processed immediately after harvest into juice and cranberry sauce. The remaining 5 percent are sold fresh or dried and sweetened.
The English idiom “you can’t have your cake and eat it too” was originally said as “you can’t eat your cake and have it too”. The word order was reversed sometime around the 1930s.
Thanks to metal shortages during World War II, there was a three-year span of time where Oscar recipients received a plaster statue painted gold; after the war, the Academy replaced the plaster statues with the traditional gold-plated metal ones.
The very first Saturday Night Live host was George Carlin; the first female host (and first person to host the show more than once) was Candice Bergen.
In the original version of Pac-Man, each level had 240 little dots for Pac-Man to munch on.
The house edge, the percentage the casino wins over the player, is lowest for Blackjack (less than 1 percent) and highest for Keno (25-29 percent).
Only four nations have national anthems with no official lyrics: Spain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and San Marino.
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