Five Random Facts for Tuesday

Here are some random facts for you.

1.  According to a 2023 Ipsos survey, Cornhole is the most-played sport in America, ahead of bowling, swimming, and golf.

2.  Red Delicious apples used to be the most common variety of apples in the U.S., but they became increasingly unpopular because they’re bred for LOOKS over TASTE.

Now, Gala apples are the most common, and Red Delicious are #2, but about two-thirds of the Red Delicious are exported.  (If you’re curious, the rest of the top five are:  Granny Smith, Honeycrisp, and Fuji.)

3.  Buzz Aldrin wasn’t the first man to walk on the Moon, but he WAS the first person to PEE there.  He peed into a special bag in his suit while he was out on the Moon, but it broke, so the liquid collected in one of his boots.

4.  Humans aren’t very nutritious to eat.  They’re only about 650 calories per pound of muscle.  Animals like boars and beavers have 1,800 calories in a pound of muscle.

5.  The used car chain CarMax was created by Circuit City in 1991.  They split it off into a second company in 2002, and it’s still going strong, while Circuit City died in 2009.

 

(Ipsos / US Apple / Popular Science / RiotFest / Wikipedia)