3/3/2023 8:00:00 AM
Fun facts for this Friday:
- It may feel a lot longer in the moment, but the average person spends two weeks of their life sitting at traffic lights.
- Will Ferrell consumed so much sugar while filming Elf that he actually became physically ill. If you've seen the famous spaghetti scene, then you can probably understand why.
- The Hollywood sign in Los Angeles once said "Hollywoodland," but was changed in 1949.
- The most expensive film ever made was Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, which cost 378 million dollars to create. For reference, the average budget for a big studio movie is around $65 million.
- If E.T. is one of your favorite movies of all time, then you'll be interested to know that someone squished their hands in jelly to make the sound effect for E.T. walking around.
- Buzz Lightyear's original name was Lunar Larry. It doesn't have quite the same ring to it, right? But it is on the theme.
- The bookworms will appreciate this fun fact: Isaac Asimov is the only author to write a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
- Another literary fact for you: It took Leo Tolstoy six years to finish his novel War and Peace. Hopefully it doesn't take you that long to read it.
- Iceland grows 5 centimeters per year because of its moving tectonic plates.
- Russia has a whopping 11 zones within the country, which gives you an idea of just how large it is.
- Do you want to know the place that has more caves than any other location on earth? Kentucky. Maybe worth adding to your vacation list.
- The Sahara Desert can reach up to 136 degrees. Its average temperature is actually about 100 degrees Fahrenheit, so it's pretty much always hot.
- Australia is wider than the moon — 600km wider, to be exact.
- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world only 0.2 miles wide.
- There are more people in California than Canada, despite the fact that Canada is more than 2,000 percent larger in size than California.
Stay tuned for next week~