Random facts ...
1. Wilma Flintstone's maiden name is Slaghoople.
2. Up until a certain age, babies don't have a sense of object permanence, which means if something is no longer in their field of perception, they believe it is gone from the universe. It's why peekaboo is so exciting.
3. Less than 750k humans have ever been to Antarctica and 500k of those were in the last 15 years.
4. If you get a drop of blood on clothing, you can remove it spitting on it. Only works if it's your blood and your spit though, because the enzymes need to match.
5. It is illegal to care for only one guinea pig in Switzerland, since they are social animals and get lonely easily so must be housed in pairs of two or more.
6. Pierce Brosnan wore his bow tie undone in the dance scene with Rene Russo in Thomas Crown Affair because he was under contract as James Bond and couldn't wear tied bow ties in any other movies during that contract.
7. Carrots are orange because of a political statement. Originally carrots came in multiple colours, including white, yellow, and purple, but orange ones were selectively bred by the Dutch as support for William of Orange, who led the the struggle for Dutch independence. You can still get the other colours but this is why orange has market dominance today.
