Five Random Facts for Tuesday

Here are some random facts for you.

1.  Canada, California, and Tokyo all have very similar populations.  Canada’s current population is estimated at 41.5 million, Tokyo’s metro area has nearly 41 million people, and California has 39.4 million.

2.  The official bird of the small island country Mauritius is the dodo.

3.  Tom Brady was drafted by the Montreal Expos in the 18th round of the MLB Draft in 1995, but he decided to stick with his plan to go to the University of Michigan to play football.

4.  You can’t legally get married in Ohio if you have syphilis.

5.  Remember the bird from Twitter’s logo?  It has a name:  “Larry.”  As in Larry Bird.  That’s because the co-founder of Twitter, Biz Stone, grew up in Massachusetts and was a huge Boston Celtics fan.

 

(Reddit / TreeHugger / Wikipedia / Ohio Laws & Administrative Rules / Mashable)