In the spirit of C.A.N.I. (Continuous And Never-ending Improvement), here are this week’s new facts—one for each day of your coming week. Pass them on to others to keep the spirit alive or invite your friends and family to visit our blog where they can also view previous entries.
- More than 100 Barbie dolls are sold on eBay every hour.
- A 2-inch square of Velcro is strong enough to hold a 175 lb. Man from the ceiling.
- The first item sold on eBay (then called Auction Web) was a broken laser pointer that sold for $14 — at the time, more than the cost of a new one.
- On that cold, cloudy, first day of business in 1955, Ray Kroc’s No. 1 McDonald’s sold $366.12 worth of 15-cent hamburgers, 19-cent cheeseburgers, 20-cent milkshakes and 10-cent sodas and orders of fries.
- Women wear engagement and wedding rings on the third finger of the left hand (not counting the thumb) because an ancient belief held that a delicate nerve runs from that finger to the heart.
- Although your head and neck take up only 10% of your body surface, you can lose more than 30% of your body heat through your noodle. Kids lose up to 60%. Unlike other blood vessels, the arteries in your head and neck don’t constrict in the cold air.
- Elvis Presley was born in East Tupelo, Mississippi, on January 8, 1935. Had he lived, he would be 72. Impersonators abound, and it may help soften the blow of another blue Christmas without him. According to a recent Harris poll, more than 17 million Americans (men outnumber women two to one) have impersonated Elvis Presley at some point during their lives. Nearly 72 million have seen an Elvis impersonator. Long live “the King.”
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