Here are some random facts for you.
1. A vowel with two dots is known as a diaeresis. In European languages, the two dots indicate that two adjacent vowels are separate syllables. It is most common in “naïve,” where the “i” should be sounded separated from the “a.”
2. There’s one volcano in the world that doesn’t have red or orange lava. The lava from the Kawah Ijen volcano in Indonesia is BRIGHT BLUE.
3. There are at least 25 student athletes in America whose parents named them “ESPN.” The highest profile one might be a Bowling Green University linebacker named Gideon ESPN Lampron. His family pronounces it “Ess-pen.”
4. What two actors from “Better Call Saul” appear in BOTH “Spinal Tap” movies? Michael McKean and Ed Begley Jr. Ed is in a flashback in the new movie, just like he was in a flashback the first time.(Today is Ed Begley Jr.’s 76th birthday. Happy birthday, Ed!)
5. There are two songs in history that spent 10 weeks at number two on the Billboard chart without ever making it to number one: “Waiting for a Girl Like You” by Foreigner in 1981 and ’82, and “Work It” by Missy Elliott in 2002 and ’03.
(Grammar How / Smithsonian / MaxPreps / Wikipedia / Wikipedia)
