Stupid Facts

• Cinnamon is the bark of the tree Cinnamomum.
  
  
• Black-eyed peas are seeds of the tropical vine Vigna Sinensis.
  
  
• It takes 30 gallons of maple sap to make 1 gallon of maple syrup.
  
  
• The word Penis is Latin for tail.
  
  
• The ZIP in the postal ZIP code stands for Zoning Improvement Program.
  (see Zip Code Lookup)
  
  
• Peter the Great made shaving mandatory by law in 1705.
  
  
• The plasma in blood has the same percentage of salt as sea water.
  (see Human Blood)
  
  
• Antarctica doubles in size every winter.
  
  
• Leonardo da Vinci wrote most of his scientific notes backwards.
  
  
• Plastic surgery in one of the oldest types of surgery performed.
  
  
• King Edward II and King Henry forbade football because it had become too popular.
  (see Superbowl Winners)
  
  
• A submarine was used in the American Revolution.
  
  
• The longest recorded filibustering speech lasted 24 hours and 18 minutes.
  
  
• Skunks eat bees.
  
  
• Saint Patrick's birth and death dates are unknown.
  
  
• The amount of uranium in the A-bomb was only about the size of a baseball.
  (See Periodic Table)
  
  
• Cleopatra married her brother.
  
  
• Anableps are four-eyed fish living in rivers in Central and South America.
  
  
• Exobiology is the study of extraterrestrial life.