1. Pound cake got its name from its original recipe, which called for a pound of butter, a pound of eggs, a pound of sugar, and a pound of flour.
2. Flights today take longer than they used to . . . like, a flight from New York to Houston is almost four hours now, when it was two-and-a-half hours in 1973. Part of the reason is because airlines now fly SLOWER to save on fuel costs.
5. Two-thirds of the people in the world have never seen snow in real life.
