Here are some random facts for you.

1.  Humans are the only animals that can blush and perhaps the only species that can feel embarrassment.  Blushing appears to be a unique human expression, which happens when blood vessels in the face dilate when we’re embarrassed.

2.  It’s only been 44 years since France executed a criminal with the Guillotine.  They executed a convicted murderer by chopping off his head in 1977, and then abolished the death penalty in 1981.

3.  Before 2016, the last time a Republican was elected president without either a Nixon or a Bush as the president or vice president was Herbert Hoover in 1928.

4.  The oldest known Yiddish text is a letter from the 1560s from a mother to her son complaining he doesn’t write her enough.

5.  Until 1915, it was legal to mail a baby through the U.S. Postal Service.

 

(Discover Wildlife / Wiki / Wiki / National Library of Israel / ThoughtCo)