1. Cameroon got its name from the Portuguese word for “shrimp.” (And the Portuguese name of the country is still literally Shrimps, or “Camarões.”)
2. The opposite of paranoia is called pronoia . . . the belief that everyone’s involved in a secret conspiracy to HELP you.
3. The average length of a book on Amazon is roughly 75,000 words, which translates to about 300 pages. About half of all books are shorter than that and half are longer.
4. During a conversation, the average person’s turn to talk lasts two seconds, and there’s only a gap of 200 milliseconds before the other person talks again. And that’s true across all cultures, and even in sign language conversations.
5. The U.S. Forest Service created Smokey the Bear in 1944 after their deal ran out with Disney to use Bambi on their forest fire prevention posters.
