Here are some random facts for you.
1. Polo ponies gallop up to 30 miles per hour in quick bursts on grass fields the size of nine football fields, so players bring about a dozen horses per match to prevent exhaustion and injury.
2. Long before William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O’Connor were on the Supreme Court together (in the ’80s and ’90s), they were both students at Stanford Law School, where they went on a few dates.
3. Heinz had 60 products when it came up with the slogan “57 Varieties”, because Henry Heinz thought 57 was a luckier number.
4. Rio de Janeiro is NOT the capital of Brazil, Brasilia is. But Rio WAS once the capital of Portugal. In the early 1800s, the Portuguese royal family fled there to get away from Napoleon. Lisbon became Portugal’s capital again in the 1820s.
5. A chemist named William Mitchell is credited as the key inventor behind Pop Rocks, Tang, AND Cool Whip.
(New York Times / New York Times / Wikipedia / Wikipedia / Wikipedia)
