Here are some random facts for you.
1. Unlike most mammals, cetaceans, which include whales, dolphins, and porpoises, must consciously choose to breathe.
2. The NBA didn’t start using the three-point line until the 1979-1980 season, and it wasn’t used universally in college basketball or in the NCAA tournament until the 1986-1987 season.
In the first eight NBA seasons, teams averaged less than five three-point ATTEMPTS per game. Now, it’s higher than ever before, with each team heaving up 38 threes per game. (They’re making 13.5 of those, or 36%.)
3. The world’s shortest commercial flight is between two islands in northern Scotland. The flight is 1.7 miles and the official time is two minutes, but it takes closer to 47 seconds.
4. Beverly Hills was named after Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. That was named after Beverley, Yorkshire, England. And that town was named in 700 A.D. because of a colony of beavers. So Beverly Hills is named after medieval English beavers.
5. Pablo Escobar was on the first “Forbes” billionaires list in 1987 thanks to the $3 billion he’d made from his cocaine empire. He also made the list for the next seven years, right up until he was killed in 1993.
(Smithsonian / Wikipedia / Amusing Planet / Mental Floss / Forbes)
