Five Random Facts for Thursday

Here are some random facts for you.

1.  Before France abolished capital punishment in 1981, executions were still carried out by guillotine, as they had been since the French Revolution.

2.  The Sutter family from Viking, Alberta, Canada had seven boys.  Six of them went on to be NHL players in the ’70s and ’80s.  The seventh one won $10 million in the lottery.

3.  Women blink more often than men.  Women blink an average of 19 times per minute, men blink 11 times.

4.  Shakey’s Pizza was founded by a guy named Sherwood Johnson.  His nickname was “Shakey” because he got malaria during World War Two, which left him with nerve damage that made him shake.

5.  No point in Michigan is more than 85 miles from a Great Lake.

 

(Wikipedia / Wikipedia / NIH / Wikipedia / MLive)