Five Random Facts for Wednesday

Here are some random facts for you.

1.  You can eat the labels on fruit. They’re totally edible, they just might not taste that good.

2.  Honey bees can “tell time” and can experience jet lag.

3.  There is a bowling alley in the White House basement, which was added by Richard Nixon in 1969.

4.  It would take a sloth roughly 6.6 hours to travel a mile.

5.  Even though Stephen King came up with the idea for “The Shining” in a hotel in Colorado, and the 1980 Stanley Kubrick movie was based in Colorado, the exterior shots of the Overlook Hotel in the movie were actually of the historic Timberline Lodge in Oregon below Mt. Hood.

 

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