Love Wrexham Magazine Issue 1 - July 2019

DO YOU KNOW?
1. Ostriches and zebras often live
together to protect each other
from predators. The ostrich can
see better and the zebra can
hear or smell danger better.
2. The U.S. has more museums than Starbucks and
McDonald’s locations combined.
3. In 1963, Albert Heineken created a beer bottle that
could also be used as a brick to build sustainable
housing in impoverished countries.
4. The White House Correspondent’s
Dinner was men-only until 1962,
when JFK refused to attend
unless women did.
5. Facebook offers 4 months of paid
parental leave to new fathers who
work for the company.
6. Lake Michigan is so clear after winter, you can see
shipwrecks from the sky.
7. Germany was the first country ever to implement
Daylight Saving Time in order to save energy
during WW1.
8. Most of a sperm whale’s head is filled with a fatty,
yellow tissue called “junk.”
9. Venezuela’s name comes from the Italian word
“Veneziola” (little Venice). Explorer Amerigo Vespucci
saw native stilt houses built in Lake Maracaibo,
reminding him of Venice.
10. The population of Ireland still hasn’t recovered from
the famine of 1845-1852. It was at 8 million before
the famine and is at 6.5 million today.
11. Hawaii’s largest-ever earthquake occurred in 1868
and the aftershocks are still being observed.
12. The classic Michael Jackson song “Thriller” was
originally titled “Starlight” and had the same melody,
but different lyrics.
13. Google owns many domains to cover mistypes
such as: Gooogle, Gogle, Googel, and even 466453.
14. McLaren F1’s engines are built with gold.
15. Up until 2008, the Santa Barbara
Zoo had a giraffe named Gemina
that had a permanent 90-degree
bend in her neck caused by fused
vertebrae.
16. Bob Dylan didn’t speak to anyone
for a week after Elvis Presley died.
17. Cats, from lions and tigers right down to domestic
felines, cannot taste anything sweet.
18. Elephants know to come to humans for help (like if
they’ve been poisoned) and can find us even over
long distances.
19. Dogs have only recently been able to watch TV, since
they need about 70 images per second, which older
TVs couldn’t deliver.
20. Dinosaurs are not, technically, extinct, since birds
are considered by science as a type of dinosaur.
21. “Sahara” means “desert” in Arabic so the “Sahara
Desert” is the “Desert Desert.”
22. In 1994, a 75-pound bag of cocaine fell out of a
plane and landed in the middle of a Florida crime
watch meeting.
23. Lying flat on your back is your best bet for
surviving a falling elevator.
24. There’s a city in Brazil called “Nao-Me-Toque”
meaning “Don’t Touch Me.”
25. The Liberty Bell and Big Ben
were cast by the same bell
foundry and both bells are cracked.
26. The last person who died at the
Berlin Wall attempted to escape in
a hot air balloon but fell to his death.
27. There’s actually a laser procedure to change one’s
eye color from brown to blue.
28. Steven Spielberg completed his degree about 33
years after dropping out. He used Schindler’s List
as his final project.
29. Russians take guns into space to protect themselves
against bears if they land in an undesirable location
on their way back to Russia.
30. Honey is the only food that
will never rot. It can crystallize,
but if kept in perfect conditions
it can last for literally thousands
of years.
31. California uses prison inmates to fight forest fires.
32. If you start a conversation in Facebook Messenger
and type @fbchess. you can play chess with a friend.
33. On the Titanic, there was a stash of binoculars
inside of a locker. Unfortunately, the key was lost
-- maybe if they’d had them, they would have been
able to see the iceberg.
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