Wacky Wednesday: The First 15 Fun Facts of 2016!!!

As is Wednesday tradition, BBIMI is giving you a glimpse at 15 fun and crazy you probably did not know before you read this blog post. The world is full of useless, yet entertaining AND factual information and we would be crazy or wacky ourselves 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!

– Instead of laboring with a brush, clean your grill fast by rubbing half an onion back and forth over the still-warm grill grates.

– Research shows that older people are slow on memory tests because they have more mental data to search for the answer.

– Rottweilers have a bite force of 328 pounds—about half of a shark’s bite force, at 669 pounds.

– Researchers have found that Quebecol, a chemical compound only found in maple syrup, might have potential as an anti-cancer drug.

– Saudi Arabia is the largest country in the world without a river.

– Four out of ten Americans have never moved from their hometown.

– The St. Louis Rams are worth an estimated $930 million, making them the least valuable team in the NFL.

– On Spotify, you could listen to a different version of “Silent Night” every night for 72 years.

– Toilet paper couldn’t be advertised as “splinter free” until the 1930s, when production techniques improved.

– It’s been over 30 years since Earth had a cooler-than-average month.

– You can pay a company called The Breakup Shop to break up with someone for you via text, email, letter, or phone call.

– The first word spoken on the moon was “Okay.”

– An estimated 20% to 25% of people are immune to hangovers.

– An octopus will eat its own arms if it gets really hungry.

– The recovery time after eating the hottest pepper in the world is 14 hours.

(via @UberFacts, @GoogleFacts & @Factsionary)