Some random, weird facts you just need to know about

Did you know that the act of touching glasses to cheers comes from medieval suspicions of poisoning each othe. You would slam mugs together to spill each others drinks into your own to show trust, and that you weren't trying to kill them.


39,994 Champagne Glasses Toasting Stock Photos, Pictures & Royalty-Free  Images - iStock


How long can snails sleep? Up to 3 years if the weather doesn't suit them.


Contentedly sleeping snail stock illustration. Illustration of childhood -  72227820


Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and Mrs. Coretta Scott King paid the hospital bill for the birth of Julia Roberts, whose parents were family friends and ran a small acting school the King children attended.


TIL: Julia Roberts parents ran a children's acting school. The children of Martin  Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King attended the school. As a thank-you  for their service, Mrs. King paid


A million seconds is 12 days. How long is a billion seconds?  31 years.


A MILLION SECONDS IS 11 DAYS a BILLION SECONDS IS 31 YEARS a TRILLION  SECONDS IS 31710 YEARS Really Puts It Into Perspective | Meme on ME.ME


Did you realize that when you look at a flower, some of the photons that entered your eye just ended a 100,000 year journey from the center of the sun.. Nobody else sees them - Just you. 10% of those will give up their energy to cause a chemical reaction that - literally - makes them a part of you.


Flowers That Turn Toward the Sun


The 'Tag' when you play tag stands for 'touch and go'.


1,586 Kids Playing Tag Stock Photos, Pictures & Royalty-Free Images - iStock


So far there has been less than 750,000 humans to have ever been to Antartica. 500,000 of those were only in the last 15 years.


People in Antarctica – Australian Antarctic Program


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