Here are some fun facts to help get you through the day and look like the most informed person at the water cooler.
– Tiramisu was invented in Italian brothels because they believed it was an aphrodisiac.
– The highest point in Connecticut is on a mountain called Mount Frissell. But it’s not even the peak of the mountain . . . that’s across the border in Massachusetts.
– Ikea started as a mail-order business that sold pencils and postcards.
– One pound of dimes and one pound of quarters are worth the same amount. Two hundred dimes weigh one pound and are worth $20 . . . 80 quarters weigh one pound and are worth $20.
– Dinosaurs existed before flowers. Scientists believe flowering plants evolved as a response to dinosaurs . . . because plants needed protection against vegetarian dinosaurs. So, they developed toxic flowers, then eventually evolved to have nontoxic flowers once the dinosaurs were gone.
(News.com.au / Wikipedia / Ikea / Wisegeek / ABC News Australia)
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