1. The average person sleeps for six hours and 31 minutes on weekdays, and seven hours and 22 minutes on weekends.
2. Voiceovers in movie trailers became rare in 2008 after the man who did more than 5,000 voiceovers, Don LaFontaine, died. He’s the guy who’s well-known for the phrase, “In a world . . .”
3. Disney World is twice the size of Manhattan. The Disney parks in Florida cover 43 square miles, and Manhattan is 22 square miles. It also means Disney World is roughly the same size as San Francisco.
4. The urine of a diabetic contains so much sugar . . . that it can be purified and made into a high-end single malt whiskey.
5. For almost all of the 1800s, maps of Africa had a mountain range called the Mountains of Kong . . . which didn’t actually exist. They still show up once in a while on modern maps . . . an atlas from 1995 even had them.
