When the Sun Hits Your Eye Like a Baked Apple Pie

 

It was 117 degrees here yesterday.

If I hear one more newscaster, shop keep or friendly passerby say ‘At least it’s a dry heat,’ I’m going to lose what’s left of my unmelted mind. Microwaves cook with a dry heat, too. They’ll still detonate your goddamn corn.

Now for something a little cooler, factslaps:

  • The only difference between fog and mist is visibility: if you can’t see more than 100 metres ahead, it’s fog, not mist.
  • Prior to 1868, eating meat from four legged animals had been prohibited in Japan for more than a thousand years.Image result for cow
  • The Dutch army had only one tank during WWII.Image result for only dutch army wwii tank
  • Most Americans can buy an AR-15 rifle before they can legally buy a beer.
  • Japanese manufacture Toto built a motorcycle that runs on poop.Image result for toto motorcycle poop
  • Al Pacino turned down the role of Han Solo in the Star Wars franchise.Image result for al pacino han solo
  • Porsche’s first car, in 1898, was electric.Image result for porsche first electric car
  • The Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, once hired 420 mimes artists to make fun of traffic violators because he believes Colombians fear ridicule more than being fined.Image result for bogota traffic mimes
  • A study says 13.9 million people call in sick or arrive late to work the day after the Super Bowl.
  • The Nazis are believed to have sterilized 400,000 Germans deemed to have lives not worth living.
  • Scooby Doo, Where Are You! was originally called Who’s S-S-Scared?Image result for scooby doo where are you
  • The cities of Jericho, Luxor, Damascus, Byblos and Beirut have been continuously inhabited for more than 5,000 years.
  • One of the oldest species of animal still with us are the horseshoe crabs who appeared 445 million years ago. They’ve survived for 75% of the entire span of animal life on the planet.Image result for horseshoe crab
  • The Nigerian film industry, or Nollywood, is the second largest in the world in terms of numbers of films produced.
  • In 1996, Australia enacted strict gun laws. It had no mass shooting since.Image result for australian guns