noun

plural noun: curiosities

1. 1. 

   a strong desire to know or learn something.

   "filled with curiosity, she peered through the window"

Did You Know?

• Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood. Two hearts pump blood to the gills, and one pumps it to the rest of the body.

• A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. It takes Venus longer to rotate once on its axis than to complete a full orbit of the Sun.

• Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren't. While bananas meet the criteria of what a berry is, strawberries do not. 

• Sharks existed before trees. Sharks have been around for about 400 million years, predating trees by around 50 million years.

• There's a species of jellyfish that can potentially live forever. Turritopsis dohrnii can revert its cells back to an earlier state and start its life cycle anew.

• The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one. Fred Baur had his ashes partially interred in a Pringles container per his wishes.

• Scotland has 421 words for “snow.” From "sneesl" (to begin to rain or snow) to "skelf" (a large snowflake), the Scottish dialects have a snowy vocabulary as rich as their weather.

Gilded Age Jokes and Humor:

We’re back this week with some jokes from the Gilded Age. People in the Gilded Age loved quick jokes, puns, and humorous stories, much like people enjoy memes and stand-up today.

When was beef the highest? When the cow jumped over the moon.

Why has the shoemaker wonderful powers of endurance? Because he holds on to the last.

When is a boat like a heap of snow? When it is adrift.

Why are spiders good correspondents? Because they drop a line by every post and at every house.