1. The probability of you drinking a glass of water that contains a molecule of water that also “passed through” a dinosaur is . . . almost 100%.
2. The first Olympics that were televised were the 1936 ones in Nazi Germany. They were broadcast to 25 special viewing rooms in Germany. The first ones that were televised worldwide were the Olympics in Tokyo in 1964.
3. A 7-foot-tall man in the U.S. has a 1 in 7 shot of making it to the NBA.
4. Every element heavier than lithium had to be created in the core of a star. Every element heavier than iron had to be created by a supernova.
5. “Scarface” was a remake of a movie from 1932 that was produced by Howard Hughes, about the rise of a gangster in Chicago modeled after Al Capone.
