Fun Facts – 04 November 2015

• In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck.
• When three-letter airport codes became standard, airports that had been using two letters simply added an X.
• At one point in the 1990s, 50% of all CDs produced worldwide were for AOL.
• Nutella was invented during WWII, when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate to extend his chocolate ration.
• Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima for work when the first A-bomb hit, made it home to Nagasaki for the second, and lived to be 93
• Prairie dogs say hello with kisses.
• Jonas Salk declined to patent his polio vaccine. “There is no patent,” he said. “Could you patent the sun?”
• Only one McDonald’s in the world has turquoise arches. Sedona, AZ thought yellow clashed with the natural red rock.
• 12+1 = 11+2, and “twelve plus one” is an anagram of “eleven plus two.”
• If you start counting at one and spell out the numbers as you go, you won’t use the letter “A” until you reach 1,000.

Courtesy of mentalfloss.com