Five Random Facts at 5:00 for Tuesday, March 2

Time to get your facts on.

Here are some random facts for you . . .

1. Only 5% of the calls routed to fire departments in the U.S. are for actual fires. Most of them are for medical emergencies.

2. Can openers were invented in 1858 . . . which is 48 years after cans. During those years in between, the most popular way to open cans was smashing them with a hammer and chisel.

3. Your rectum has similar cells to your mouth . . . which is why spicy foods can burn on the way out as much as they do when you're eating them.

4. There are only two companies with a perfect "AAA" credit rating: Johnson & Johnson and Microsoft.

5. Antarctica gets about 44,000 tourists a year . . . that's up from 5,000 tourists a year in 1990.

(Boston Globe/Today I Found Out/Men's Health/Investopedia/Global News)

The facts are more fun when Scott and Sadie do them...

Five Random Facts at 5:00 for Tuesday, March 2

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