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)