Here are some random facts for you.
1. The entire U.S. Interstate Highway System cost $114 billion to construct, or around $660 billion in today’s dollars. It contains nearly 50,000 miles of roads, and 93% of them are toll-free.
2. Honey bees can “tell time” and can experience jet lag.
3. There’s a one-lane bowling alley in the White House basement, which was added by Richard Nixon in 1973. (There was another, two-lane bowling alley in the West Wing built for President Truman, but it’s been moved to the Executive Office Building, which is also in White House compound.)
4. It would take a sloth roughly 6.6 hours to travel a mile.
5. Even though Stephen King came up with the idea for “The Shining” in a hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, and the 1980 Stanley Kubrick movie was based in Colorado, the exterior shots of the Overlook Hotel in the movie were actually of the historic Timberline Lodge in Oregon below Mt. Hood.
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