Here are some random facts for you.
1. The world’s largest iceberg, officially known as A23a, was larger than the state of Rhode Island when it first broke off Antarctica in 1986. Now it’s only slightly larger than New York City.
Last month, NASA reported that it’s melting, and it’s, “on the verge of complete disintegration.” That process is so fast, it might not even last through next month.
2. In seven-card “Texas Hold ‘Em” hands, the total number of distinct seven-card hands is 133,784,560. And interestingly, the probability of having NO pairs is LESS than the probability of a one-pair or two-pair hand.
3. Three times MORE people speak English as a second language than as a native one. English has more than a billion people learning it as an ADDITIONAL language, and only 390 million people speaking it natively.
4. William Shakespeare’s wife was named Anne Hathaway.
5. The first time two men kissed in a movie was in a silent film in 1927 called “Wings”. (Here’s the scene.) And the first erotic kiss between two members of the same sex was two females in Cecil B. DeMille’s “Manslaughter” in 1922.
(Wikipedia / Wikipedia / Ethnologue / Wikipedia / Far Out Magazine)
