- A giraffe heart weighs about 24 pounds.
- Plastic sheaths at each end of a shoe lace are called aglets.
- The world’s largest baseball bat is 120 feet long. It weighs 68,000 pounds.
- Pat Welsh was the voice of E.T. in the movie E.T. the Extra-terrestrial
- That dot over the lowercase j and i is called a tittle.
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Senseless Sunday: eyeing time
- The old statement “a broken clock is right at least twice a day” is meaningless if the clock is digital.
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 18 to 21 inch long tongue. Find more random giraffe facts here.
- The tool used in old shoe stores to measure foot size is called a Brannock Device.
- The eye muscle is the fastest reacting muscle of the whole body. It contracts in less than 1/100th of a second.
- The number googolplex cannot be written out since a googol of 0’s (zeros) cannot fit into the observable universe.