Here are some random facts for you.
1. The modern Oval Office was only created in 1934. It was designed so that President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who used a wheelchair, could move easily between the Office and the Residence.
2. The word “turquoise” is based on the word “Turkish,” because it described the color of the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of southern Turkey.
3. Mort Walker, the guy who created the “Beetle Bailey” and “Hi and Lois” comic strips, came up with the idea for using random symbols like exclamation points and hashtags to represent swear words in cartoons. And the official term for it is grawlix.
4. Before 2023, college basketball players weren’t allowed to have a jersey number that includes a six, seven, eight, or nine. That’s because after a foul, the refs would signal the player’s number to the scorer’s table with both hands, and small numbers made it easier.
5. In the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme, there’s no mention of him being an egg, that’s just how he’s evolved to look in pop culture.
(Wikipedia / Fact Retriever / Wikipedia / Defector / Poetry Foundation)
