Here are some random facts for you.
1. There are about 20 quintillion animals total living on Earth. That’s 20 billion billion. And about half are insects.
2. The movie “Dirty Harry” was originally going to be called “Dead Right,” and Frank Sinatra was going to be the star instead of Clint Eastwood.
3. “Herpes” is an ancient Greek word that means “creeping.” The disease got the name because the blisters would creep across your skin.
4. The founder of Kodak, George Eastman, hated that months had different numbers of days. So he made the company operate on a 13-month calendar, with 28 days in each, and two left over. He called the 13th month “Sol.” It sounds crazy, but the company used the 13-month calendar from 1928 to 1989.
5. Powdered wigs became popular in the late 1500s because so many men were losing their hair, to syphilis.
(Mom.me / TCM / BioEtymology / Gizmodo / Mental Floss)
