1. Watching “blood-curdling” horror movies can actually thicken your blood. Fear causes an increase in a blood-clotting protein called “Factor 8.”
2. There are now about 1.13 billion websites . . . but only about 200 million are actually active. The rest are mainly parked domains.
3. 90% of the people in the world live in the Northern Hemisphere.
4. The average height in the NBA has gone up about three inches since the league started in the late ’40s. It started at 6-foot-3, and now it’s 6-foot-6.
5. “Sushi” means “sour rice” in Japanese . . . because the Japanese believed the most important ingredient is the rice, not the fish.
