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Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM

Fun facts…facts you didn’t think you needed to know

• An average household has 300,000 items.

• UPS drivers will make a left turn only 10 percent of the time.

• China cuts down 20 million 20-year-old trees annually to produce 80 billion disposable chopsticks.

• In 18th-century Europe, pineapples were so rare and exotic that they were often reserved for royalty. Sometimes, people would rent them out for special occasions.

• Play-doh was originally used to clean soot that furnaces often left on walls in the 1930s.

• People actually sigh 12 times an hour, a vital and life-sustain- ing reflex that keep lungs func tioning.


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