Five Random Facts For Thursday

Here are some random facts for you.

 

1.  Lemons float, but limes sink.  It’s because they have a very small difference in density, but it’s just enough to change what happens to them in water. 

 

2.  The only major American city founded by a woman was Miami.  Julia Tuttle moved to south Florida from Cleveland, Ohio in 1874 and decided to create a city.

 

3.  Barbie is from a fake town called Willows, Wisconsin.

 

4.  America won the first gold medal in modern Olympics history.  In 1896 in Greece, an American track star named James Connolly won the first event, the triple jump.   Technically he got a silver medal, since there weren’t gold medals at that Olympics, but since he got first place, he’s been retroactively given a gold. 

 

5.  Small spiders have brains that are too big for their heads, so it actually spills into their body and legs.

 

(Steve Spangler Science / Parade / Wikipedia / Wikipedia / National Geographic)