Awesome Random Facts - Part 2

Awesome Random Facts - Part 2

By May Rostom

Here are a few more facts that might inspire you, amaze you, or simply put a smile on your face. Don’t forget to spill out this week’s facts to all your friends and family (that’s what I do anyway).

.The spray WD-40 got its name because there were forty attempts needed before the creation of the "WaterDisplacing" substance.

.A leech has 32 brains.
.A clown fish and oyster can both change their gender.

Sylvester Stallone once worked as an usher in NYC at Walter Reade Theater while writing screenplays. The star also swept out Bronx Zoo lion cages.

.Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, is neither signed nor dated.

A musical piece called 4 minutes 33 seconds, has no sound at all. It was ' written ' by the American composer John Cage in 1954. A pianist sits at the piano and plays nothing for exactly 4 minutes and 33 seconds.

.In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.

The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.

.During the whole of his life, Thomas Edison received only three months of formal schooling, and was dismissed from school as being retarded.

.The name of the character that is behind bars in the Monopoly board game is Jake the Jailbird.