{trivia tuesday}

10 random but delightful facts....

1. The average American consumes over 28 pounds of bananas each year.
2. The best-selling Barbie® doll ever was Totally Hair® Barbie®. She had flowing tresses from the top of her head down to her toes.
3. Most plant pollen is highly inflammable. It will ignite and explode when placed on an extremely hot surface. In the early days of modern theater, artificial lightning was produced by throwing pollen grains of the club moss onto a hot shovel.
4. In 1776, a man who made $4,000 a year was considered wealthy
5. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in one night.
6. Sunbeams that shine down through clouds are called crepuscular rays.
7. A new star is born in our galaxy is born every 18 days. About 20 new stars are born each year. For comparison, there are 100,000 million stars in our galaxy.
8. Write-in votes for the Academy Awards were disallowed after 1935.
9. Till the 1830's, ketchup was sold as medicine
10. The inventor of the light bulb, Thomas Alva Edison was afraid of the dark.
    
     

Do you feel delightfully smarter?