Here are some random facts for you.
1. In 1925, archeologists were excavating the ruins of ancient Babylon, when they discovered, a MUSEUM. The museum dated back to 530 BCE, and there were artifacts from 2,000 years before that.
Imagine digging through the ruins of a place nearly 2,500 years old, and finding artifacts that archeologists THEN discovered, from 2,000 years before that. The items were neatly arranged side-by-side, and even had “museum labels.”
2. Carrots were originally several colors, and the most common one was purple. But Dutch farmers in the 16th century bred red and yellow carrots to make orange ones, since it was their royal color, and those became the standard.
3. It takes 248 years for Pluto to orbit the sun. That means between the time Pluto was discovered in 1930, named a planet, and then eventually declassified and demoted to a “dwarf planet” in 2006, it didn’t even make it halfway through one orbit.
4. Even though one of Bryan Adams’ biggest hits was “Summer of ’69”, he was only nine years old in the actual summer of ’69.
5. Frogs usually mate with the equivalent of ORGIES, and the males will sometimes temporarily change color so other males won’t try to mate with them during the chaos.
(Wikipedia / Wikipedia / LiveScience / Wikipedia / Popular Science)
