Five Random Facts For Monday

Here are some random facts for you.

 

1.  “Snakes on a Plane” was almost renamed “Pacific Air Flight 121”, but Samuel L. Jackson fought to keep the original title.

 

2.  A baseball player named John Miller hit a home run in his first at-bat, with the Yankees in 1966.  And he hit another one in his LAST at-bat, with the L.A. Dodgers in 1969.  And those were the only two home runs he hit in his whole career.

 

3.  The word “snafu” was originally a military acronym.  It stands for “situation normal: all [effed] up.”

 

4.  Almost every single hamster in the world is descended from a pair of hamsters in Syria in the 1930s who were brother and sister.

 

5.  The population of Washington D.C. jumps 79% every day when people commute in.  Boston has the second biggest daily jump, at 40%.  Houston is third, at 28%.

 

(Wikipedia / Wikipedia / Dictionary.com / Wikipedia / Census)