1. The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) baseball team once had a decade-long, 228-game losing streak, lasting from 2003 to 2013.
And in 2011, Caltech’s men’s basketball team ended a 310-game conference losing streak. You could say athletics aren’t the top priority at Caltech.
2. Lobster wasn’t always considered a delicacy . . . before the late 1800s, lobsters were called the “cockroaches of the sea” and fed to prisoners to save money.
5. There are 11 U.S. states that only have one area code: Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming.
