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More “Useless Facts for Inquiring Minds.”

● Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.

● Originally, John Hughes planned to release his 1985 film The Breakfast Club as The Lunch Bunch.

● The growling, gurgling, rumbling sound your stomach makes due to gas and fluid moving around is called borborygmus (pronounced bor-bor–IG-mus).

● Edwin Aldrin, Sr., father of astronaut Buzz Aldrin, was an eyewitness to the Wright Brothers’ first powered flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903. 63 years later, as a NASA consultant, he watched on live TV as his son walked on the moon. Bonus fact: the maiden name of Buzz Aldrin’s mother was Marion Moon.

● 25 cities in seven countries are named Rome. 35 more are named Roma.

● The Trump administration twice tried to give Dolly Parton a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and twice she declined. She said Biden approached her recently, too, but she probably would decline because accepting it now would seem political.

● In Alabama, it is illegal to dress as a priest or nun.

● Most caterpillars have 12 eyes, six on each side of the head. The eyes are simple structures thought to be only vaguely light-sensitive. When a caterpillar becomes a butterfly or moth, it develops compound eyes capable of seeing details (such as pollen) in the ultra-violet spectrum.