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.
• The Dutch army had only one tank during WWII.
• 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.
• Al Pacino turned down the role of Han Solo in the Star Wars franchise.
• Porsche’s first car, in 1898, was electric.
• 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.
• 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?
• 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.
• 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.