Rock Facts! Bueller & Madre introduced these to us as a method of staff intros this past summer. Rock facts are meant to be indisputable facts that staff know. Some of them are just fun and meaningless. Here are a few for you to enjoy.
- Geology is the study of rocks
- Light falls off at the square of the distance (Moose)
- Bologna is deli meat for people with eyes (Gaston)
- The average woman uses her height in lipstick every 5 years
- Gaston & Bueller are twins
- A lion’s roar can be heard from 5 miles away!
- The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
- The Twitter bird actually has a name – Larry
- The CN Tower has 1776 steps
- Bubble wrap was originally intended to be used as wallpaper.
- Movie trailers were originally shown after the movie, which is why they were called “trailers”
- The expiration date on water bottles is for the bottle, not the water.
- The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green.
- Hippopotamus milk is pink.
- If you started with $0.01 and doubled your money every day, it would take 27 days to become a millionaire.
- Human eyes can distinguish about 10 million different colors.
- Outer space is only an hours’ drive away – if your car could drive straight up
- Flamingos turn pink from eating shrimp
- Lemon and Oma are sisters
- Leonardo Da Vinci was the first to explain why the sky is blue.
- A handshake transfers more germs than a kiss.
- Lemons ripen after you pick them, but oranges do not.
What is your favourite rock fact of your own or someone else’s?
Meandering Moose 