Random Thursday

That's a Fact Jack: A Collection of Utterly Useless Information [Updated] by Harry Bright & Jakob Anser continues to be a book of ultimate delight! These factoids are so random and yet, I'm learning new things every week when I open it up to write this post! LOL!

"Dolly the sheep--the first cloned mammal--was named after the singer Dolly Parton. Stockmen dubbed the sheep 'Dolly' because she was cloned from a mammary cell."

"Gregor Mendel, 'the father of genetics', twice failed the certification exam to become a high school science teacher."

"Potatoes have more chromosomes than humans do--48 versus 46."