Didja know:
- Japan officially recognizes Bitcoin as a method of payment but not as currency.
- While the U.S. generates 2/3 of its electricity from fossil fuels, South America generates 2/3 of it from renewable energy sources, making the continent a global leader in renewable energy.
- Dams don’t last forever. Once they have exceeded their life span of 50 to 100 years, risk of the concrete deteriorating increases dramatically.
- Night owls are more likely to suffer from nightmares, surveys suggest.
- No one knows for sure why tennis points go 15-30-40, or even why 0 is called love.
- Rosa Parks was sitting in the colored section of the bus during the infamous incident in Montgomery; she was asked to vacate her seat, in the front row of the colored section, because the white portion of the bus was filled.
- Diphylleia grayi is know as a skeleton flower because its white petals go transparent when wet, but return to white when dry.