
07/28/2025
5 RANDOM FACTS: Monday July 28th
1. The entire continent of South America is EAST of Michigan. In fact, the continent is also east of Jacksonville, Florida.
2. The opening scene in "Saving Private Ryan" where American troops storm the beach at Normandy cost $12 million, almost one-fifth of the movie's entire budget.
3. The word for a group of pugs is a grumble.
4. It takes a surprisingly long time for your garbage to decompose. It takes between 1 and 10 years for a cigarette butt, 10 to 1,000 years for a plastic shopping bag, 200 years for a plastic straw, 500 years for a diaper, 2,000 years for tires, and one million years for a glass bottle.
5. The oldest evidence of humans in North America is from 130,000 years ago in the San Diego area.