Here are some random facts for you.
1. Tom and Jerry were originally named Jasper and Jinx. Then, there was a contest to name them. Animator John Carr won $50 (around $1,000 in today’s cash) for coming up with the names Tom and Jerry.
They were named after a cocktail, which has a holiday, eggnog vibe.
2. The first meal eaten on the Moon was: Bacon bits, peaches, sugar cookie cubes, a pineapple and grapefruit drink, and coffee.
3. The Netherlands gives Canada 20,000 tulips every year as a thank you for protecting the Dutch royal family in World War Two.
4. If you play dead in order to kill or capture an enemy in a war scenario, you are committing a war crime according to the Geneva Convention.
5. The 2012 movie “Kon-Tiki” was filmed simultaneously in Norwegian and English, with each scene being shot twice, first in Norwegian and then in English.
(Wikipedia / Smithsonian / About the Netherlands / ICRC / Wikipedia)
