Here are some random facts for you.
1. “Strengths” is the longest word in the English language containing only ONE vowel letter.
2. Zach Braff and Lauryn Hill grew up in the same neighborhood in New Jersey, and she even went to his bar mitzvah.
3. There are 21 people who have seven physical keys that control the main database behind the entire Internet, they’re spread around the world and the keys are all in safe deposit boxes. (One update says it’s more complicated than this. But this is a simplified description of the security system.)
4. Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born just a few hours apart on the same day, February 12th, 1809, Lincoln in Kentucky and Darwin in England. Darwin lived until 1882, Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.
5. There was only one U.S. Navy battleship that wasn’t named for a state, the USS Kearsarge. It served in World War One and was named after a ship from the Civil War.
(Wikipedia / People / The Guardian / Smithsonian / Wikipedia)
