Becky Cairns

Pigs actually don’t “sweat like pigs” because they have no sweat glands. That’s why they roll in the mud to cool off.

Are you guilty of tsundoku? That’s the Japanese term for buying more books than you can read.

The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

One pound of lemons contains more sugar than one pound of strawberries.

You burn more calories sleeping than watching television.

The average person spends six months in his lifetime waiting for red lights to turn green.

Brain messages can travel along your nerves at speeds as fast as 200 miles per hour.

Talk about a waiting game: It takes six months for fingernails to grow out from the base to the tip.

The dwarf planet Pluto was discovered on this day in 1930 by an astronomer at an Arizona observatory.

Talk about recycling: Your heart pumps the blood through your body around 1,000 times each day — or once every 1 1/2 minutes.