Fun Facts

Sweetwater, TN is home to the world’s largest underground lake, called the “Lost Sea”

Portland, OR, was named after a coin toss: heads, the city would be named Portland, tails, it would be named Boston.   

A shrimp’s heart is actually located in its head.

If you plug your nose you can’t hum. (go ahead, try it!)

A group of cats is called a “clowder,” and a group of kittens is called a “kendle.”

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.  

Jediism is a religion based on expansion of philosophical and theological ideas contained in the Star Wars movies. (It also draws heavily from Buddhism and Taoism)  It has hundreds of thousands of followers world wide.  

Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, not China.

An ant brain has roughly 250,000 brain cells(the largest brain among all insects).  A human brain has roughly 10,000 million brain cells.  This means that a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human.  

silver, orange, purple, month, angst, and scalp are among the few words in the english language that are impossible to rhyme with.

The stripes of a tiger are actually imprinted on it’s skin.

Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil eventually.