Here are some random facts for you.
1. The human body is continually renewing itself. Around 330 billion cells are replaced every day, which is about 1% of all our cells. Within 80 to 100 days, 30 trillion will have replenished, enough to generate a whole new person.
2. The founder of Timex watches picked the name in honor of his father, because his father loved reading “Time” magazine and using Kleenex.
3. The term “anorexia” was created by a British doctor in the 1800s named Sir William Gull. And there are theories that he might’ve been Jack the Ripper.
4. The “Guinness Book of World Records” holds a world record, for being the best-selling copyrighted book of all time, even ahead of Webster’s dictionary.
5. In Quebec, it’s illegal for a woman to take her husband’s last name after they get married.
(Scientific American / Fortune / Wikipedia / Wikipedia / Quebec.ca)
