12 Random Trivia Tidbits Requesting Permission to Land in Your Brain

It was the March 1984 cover of National Geographic.

…arrived during the Rutherford B. Hayes administration in 1880.

Polar bears are the only bear to possess a third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. It helps shield them from the UV radiation reflected by snow.

If you’ve ever chowed down on shrimp cocktail, you’ve probably noticed the lack of organs. Even a shrimp’s heart is actually located inside its head.

They’re made of cartilage instead.

Ginseng’s name means “man-root,” named that because, well, the root looks a bit like a little man.

The term was first used to refer to tall ship masts.

“Jeans” get their name from where the fabric was developed: Genoa, Italy. The word denim, too, nods to past jeans masters in the French city of Nimes.

According to the inventor himself, Edison proposed to his wife in Morse Code.

One couple a year gets the chance to be married on top of the Empire State Building — on Valentine’s Day no less.

Because of a shortage of steel, concrete ships were developed and built at the end of World War I. Those were never used, but they did see use in World War II.

And I can guarantee you'll never see me there.