- Next year M&M’s will be released in three new flavours: lemon meringue pie, chocolate cherry cupcake, and peanut butter cinnamon roll.
2. British Sign Language uses a two-handed manual alphabet, while American Sign language uses one hand.
3. Great Pyrenees dogs are naturally nocturnal.
4. Tortoises are considered a type of turtle and the real way to distinguish them from other turtles is that they walk on their toes (like elephants!).
5. Tampa Bay Lightning NHL team got its name because Tampa is the lightning capital of North America based on frequency of lightning strikes.
6. The 32 compass points are N, NbE, NNE, NEbN, NE, NEbE, ENE, EbN, E (North, North by East, North North East, North East by North, North East, North East by East, East North East, East by North East, East), etc. (I only knew the cardinal and ordinal directions before and it gives me great satisfaction to see the other abbreviations… even if I have trouble keeping them straight.)
7. The Adirondacks High Peaks are the 46 peaks with an elevation over 4000 feet (as published in Peaks and People of the Adirondacks in 1927), but it turns out that four of them are under 4000 feet. Nevertheless, early surveyors deserve a lot of credit for the work they did!
8. Theodore Roosevelt was in the Adirondacks when he became president of the United States. His approximate location at the death of William McKinley at 2:15 am on September 14, 1901 is marked by a large boulder.
You already know this, but in September i learned that Vikings wore socks, which were k it on a single needle, with a technique called Nalebinding.
I love this tidbit of information!