From a warm & sunny Colorado (cold & snowy last week), here are some fun facts that I hope you enjoy. Have a great and blessed day everyone!
• The tentacles of the giant Arctic jellyfish can reach 120 feet (36.6 meters) in length.
• When Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1912, 6 replicas were sold as the original, each at a huge price, in the 3 years before the original was recovered.
• Ice tea was introduced in 1904 at the World’s Fair in St. Louis.
• Only Richard Nixon served two terms as Vice President and also was elected to two terms as President.
• The only guy without a beard in ZZ Top surname (last name) is Beard.
• Playing-cards were known in Persia and India as far back as the 12th century. A pack then consisted of 48 instead of 52 cards.
• Thomas Jefferson wrote his own epitaph without mentioning that he was US President.
• The average ocean floor is 12,000 feet.
• Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
• Starfish don’t have brains.
• The greatest tide change on earth occurs in the Bay of Fundy. The difference between low tide and high tide can be as great as 54 ft. 6 in. (16.6 meters).
• When Auguste Rodin exhibited his first important work, The Bronze Period, in 1878 it was so realistic that people thought he had sacrificed a live model inside the cast.
• The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.
• The US Presidential candidate with the highest popular vote ever was Ronald Reagan. In 1984 he secured 54,455,075 votes. Reagan was also the candidate with the highest electoral vote: 525, in 1984. In that year he equalled the 49 states that Nixon carried in 1972.
• Since its launch in 1981 the song Memory of the musical Cats has been played on radio more than a million times.
• Excavations from Egyptian tombs dating to 5,000 BC show that the ancient Egyptian kids played with toy hedgehogs.
• Winston Churchill was a stutterer. As a child, one of his teachers warned, “Because of his stuttering he should be discouraged from following in his father’s political footsteps.”
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
• Shrimp’s hearts are in their heads.
• Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.







I recently had to fill in for my wife by picking up our daughter from school and I noticed something amazing: the car pool lane is like an amazing slice of humanity. Virtually every walk of life is covered, from the tame to the terrifying, and they all seem to be reflected in the vehicles leaving the parking lot. 