Here are some random facts for you.
1. More than one million residents of Queens, New York, almost half of the borough’s population, were born outside of the United States.
2. Humans are the only animals that can blush and perhaps the only species that can feel embarrassment. Blushing appears to be a unique human expression, which happens when blood vessels in the face dilate when we’re embarrassed.
(Really? Anyone who’s seen a dog slip off a sofa, then style it out as if it was intended, would question whether the embarrassment part is true.)
3. Before Donald Trump, the last time a Republican was elected president without either a Nixon or a Bush as the president or vice president was Herbert Hoover in 1928.
4. The oldest known Yiddish text is a letter from the 1560s from a mother to her son complaining he doesn’t write her enough.
5. Until 1915, it was legal to mail a baby through the U.S. Postal Service.
(Wikipedia / Discover Wildlife / Wikipedia / National Library of Israel / ThoughtCo)
