Here are some random facts for you.
1. The oldest known living land animal is Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise living in Saint Helena, a British island in the South Atlantic Ocean. Jonathan is thought to be 192 years old, at least, with a hatching date of no later than 1832. (Here’s a video of Jonathan.)
2. People in Costa Rica are only allowed to drive six days a week, to cut down on traffic and pollution. The last digit of your license plate number dictates what day you’re not allowed on the road.
3. It’s illegal to own a pet hamster in Hawaii. The climate is too good for hamsters, so if a few ever escaped, they could start wild colonies that would devastate Hawaii’s native crops.
4. Not a single NBA player has ever had the jersey number 69.
5. If you need new nightmare fodder: There are 25 million tons worth of spiders on Earth right now, and based on the amount they eat, in theory, they could eat every single human on the planet in one year.
Added up, all the spiders in the world consume somewhere between 400 million and 800 million tons of prey every year, while all the humans on Earth weigh around 300 million tons.
(Wikipedia / Costa Rica / Humane Society / Basketball Reference / How Stuff Works)
