Here are a few more facts that might inspire you, amaze you, or simply put a smile on your face. Don’t forget to spill out this week’s facts to all your friends and family ( that’s what I do anyway ).
1 - The spray WD-40 got its name because there were forty attempts needed before the creation of the " WaterDisplacing " substance.
2 - A leech has 32 brains.
3 - A clown fish and oyster can both change their gender.
4 - Sylvester Stallone once worked as an usher in NYC at Walter Reade Theater while writing screenplays. The star also swept out Bronx Zoo lion cages.
5 - Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, is neither signed nor dated.
6 - A musical piece called 4 minutes 33 seconds, has no sound at all. It was ' written ' by the American composer John Cage in 1954. A pianist sits at the piano and plays nothing for exactly 4 minutes and 33 seconds.
7 - In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
8 - The " save " icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
9 - During the whole of his life, Thomas Edison received only three months of formal schooling, and was dismissed from school as being retarded.
10 - The name of the character that is behind bars in the Monopoly board game is Jake the Jailbird