Ten Random Things I Didn't Know
- ehsmileninjas
- Jun 1, 2017
- 2 min read

1. Chewing Gum while cutting onions will stop you from crying and save your mascara. Unfortunately that doesn't work with all crying. I don't think. I mean I am sure I have cried while chewing gum at some point in my life.

2. Hole in a ring pull on can of pop is for a straw. Keep the bugs out and stop the straw from moving position and poking you in the face when you go to take a drink.

3. The Royal Winnipeg Mint produces coins for 60 different countries, including centavos for Cuba, kroner for Norway, and pesos for Colombia. Currently, the Mint can produce over 20 million coins a day.

4. You can use your IPhone as a flatbed scanner. There's an app for that.

5. In 2016 the UN spent more on travel than it did on fighting AIDS, malaria and Tuberculosis combined.

6. If you type "Atari Breakout" in Google Image Search you get to play a game :)

7. The Arkansas School for the Deaf sports teams are called the Leopards. On May 11 2016 Def Leppard met the Deaf Leopards.

8. Barry Manilow wrote the "I am stuck on Band-Aids cause Band-Aids stuck on me" song. He also wrote the "State Farm Like a Good Neighbor" jingle....he did not however write his song "I write the songs"

9. Cockroaches can survive under water for up to 15 minutes.

10. Cherophobia is the fear of happiness or having fun ...a fear of bubbles is known as Ebulliophobia (from Latin ebullio, "bubble", "boil"). This could include a fear of any liquid or soap that bubbles and chewing gum. It also includes a fear of bubblewrap....which is just sad.
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