Factoid Friday

It's Friday and that means that it is time for Factoid Friday! On Fridays, I'll provide you with five facts. This is simply because writers and readers seem to love trivia and learning! I know that I do, so five facts are a great amount to learn, hopefully new to you, things. The facts will be bold. My comments will be in plain text.

(Yes, Factoid Friday is really appear on Saturday because the Internet wasn't working well yesterday due to all the rain we got on Thursday as the ground was still very wet!)

The Pittsburgh University named for Andrew Carnegie is the first to offer a degree in the bagpipes.

It makes me wonder if people of Scottish heritage (like Carnegie) are attracted to the school and if other people want to stay as far away as possible (like on all the cartoons).

Having eight arms isn't the weirdest thing about octopi. They also have three hearts!

I know that they say cows have four stomachs (though, I think it is like four parts to make up the stomach, but I forget), however, three hearts is quite strange! Can they have one fatal heart attack per heart and do they only die once they have had three fatal heart attacks?

The ukulele's name comes from the Hawaiian word for "flea."

I didn't know about the name part. However, I did know that the note sequence to which you sing, "my dog has fleas," is the note sequence for tuning a ukulele.

Gunpowder was accidentally invented when the Chinese were seeking an elixir for immortality.

While things with death are uncertain, I'm not quite sure why anybody would want to be immortal, either. I'm especially not sure what would prompt people to think mixing charcoal, saltpeter, and sulfur together would be a good idea or help them to be immortal. It sounds more like that's a certain way to die.

The reason people wear wedding rings on their left ring fingers is that it was believed the "vein of love" ran from the left ring finger to the heart.

I also know that the ring is a symbol of eternity as a circle "never ends." I find many of these ancient beliefs interesting in why we do things certain ways.