Wacky Wednesday: 15 Random Facts You Probably Didn’t Know

This week BBIMI is giving you a glimpse at 15 facts you probably did not know before you read this blog post. The world is full of useless, yet entertaining information and we would be crazy not to shed some light on this subject. There’s just two more days until the weekend, so enjoy this Humpday treat courtesy of BB Insurance Marketing. Check them out!

– Paper can only be recycled 6 times. After that, the fibers become too weak to hold anything together.

– Picasso burned most of his early work to keep his apartment warm because he was poor.

– Eddie Van Halen didn’t ask for royalties after completing Michael Jacksons “Beat It” guitar solo, he did it as a favor.

– Chicken today contains 266% more fat and 33% less protein than it did 40 years ago.

– Coca Cola produces so many different products that if you were to drink one each day, it would take you 9 years to try them all.

– More than 2 million Americans live on less than $2 a day.

– The sharper the knife you use to cut onions, the less irritating it will be to your eyes.

– The Great Salt Lake is getting saltier—rivers dump 1.1 million tons of new salt into it each year.

– Roughly 15% of the population of New Orleans practices voodoo.

– You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

– Most of the people feel uncomfortable when the TV volume is not divisible by 2 or 5 and nobody knows why.

– People with high IQ’s tend to be very forgetful.

– Found some honey in the back of your cupboard? It doesn’t spoil. In fact, you could eat 500 year old honey.

– Dead people can get goosebumps.

– Lobsters have blue blood.

(All Facts via @UberFacts, @OMGFacts and @GoogleFacts)