Here are some random facts for you.
1. The Atlantic Ocean entrance to the Panama Canal is more west than the Pacific Ocean entrance. (That’s because of the way Panama twists, and the fact that the canal runs more north-south than east-west.)
2. The majority of people in Canada don’t use the term “colored pencils”, they call them “pencil crayons.”
3. There’s only one actor besides Harrison Ford who was in all three of the original “Indiana Jones” movies. A guy named Pat Roach was killed by the airplane propeller in “Raiders”, a bad guy in “Temple of Doom”, and a Nazi in “Last Crusade”.
4. The longest streak of sold-out games in sports is for a minor league baseball team in Ohio called the Dayton Dragons. They’ve sold out every game for the past 25 years, which is a total of more than 1,612 games in a row.
5. Billy Bob Thornton has a phobia of antiques and refuses to stay in a room that has furniture from earlier than 1950.
(Britannica / 247 Wall Street / BroBible / Dayton Dragons / New York Times)
