Today, zarfs are usually made out of cardboard and wrap around your coffee (or tea) cups. Historically, the zarf was often ornamental and from metal.

The paper sleeve around your coffee cup is called a zarf.

This was chosen by the founder because he wanted the company to be powerful and everlasting like stars in the sky.

Samsung means “three stars” in Korean.

Fifty different state names, and not one of them contains the letter ‘Q’.

There’s only one letter that doesn’t appear in any U.S.According to a study by Johns Hopkins, more than 250,000 people in the United States die every year because of medical mistakes making medical errors the the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. Medical errors are the third-leading cause of death in the U.S.Moreover, a rabbit’s diaphragm lacks the strength to vomit. As such, Canadian courts have agreed that a four-part mathematical test is required to qualify as a skill-testing question. The Canadian Competition Act bans all games of chance, except for provincial lotteries and those held at licensed casinos. Canadian law requires citizens answer a math question to enter any sweepstakes.Toyota announced the preferred plural term in a press release in 2011. The the official plural form of a Prius is ‘Prii’.This is is the founder’s name, farm where he grew up, and hometown. IKEA is an acronym which stands for Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd.Cuba since 1962 and North Korea since 1950. Coca-Cola cannot be bought or sold (at least, not officially) because both countries are under long-term U.S. Cuba and North Korea are the only countries in the world where you can’t buy Coca-Cola.Also, most American car horns honk in the key of F. Most toilets flush in the key of E-flat.Additionally, they shared that knowledge of dangerous humans with other crows. Researchers have found that the birds can recognize individual human faces and that they held tightly to a negative association with that face. Crows hold grudges and they tell their family and friends about them.On 6 August 1890, a convicted murderer named William Kemmler became the first person in history to be executed by electric chair. Southwick modified a dentist’s chair and began experimenting on animals. He is credited with inventing the electric chair as a method of legal execution after witnessing a fatal but accidental electrocution in 1881.

Southwick was a dentist, engineer and inventor from New York. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.We thought we’d compile a list of a few interesting facts to talk about for all those awkward silences in life. Whether it is that downtime at the beginning of a Zoom call, sitting around the Thanksgiving table, or trapped in an elevator after the power has gone out – sometimes a little factoid is exactly what you need. Sometimes a conversation just needs an unusual fun fact or tidbit to get things going.

Random fun facts about september