Strange BUT TRUE

• Ladies, before you put a ring on it, you might want to consider that a survey of 17,000 people across 28 countries found that the amount of time a man spends doing chores on a weekly basis decreases significantly after he marries.

• The name for the shape of a Pringles potato chip is “hyperbolic paraboloid.”

• In 1862, the King of Siam offered Abraham Lincoln many elephants on the grounds that a “country as great as the United States should not be without elephants.” President Lincoln politely declined.

• The stage before frostbite is called — wait for it — frostnip.

• Boeing uses potatoes to test their in-flight Wi-Fi, as they reflect and absorb the signals in a fashion similar to humans. The process is called Synthetic Personnel Using Dialectic Substitution, or SPUDS.

• “Digging a hole to China” is theoretically possible if you start in Argentina.

• The first roller coaster was used to transport coal down a hill. After people found that it could reach speeds up to 50 mph, tourists started asking to ride on it for a few cents.

• A flower that smells like chocolate? Yep, but you’ll have to limit your enjoyment of this darkred Mexican native to sniffing, as the “cosmos atrosanguineus,” or “chocolate cosmos,” isn’t edible.

• In 2014, a missing woman on vacation in Iceland was found when it was discovered that she was in the search party looking for herself!

• Donkey Kong got his curious moniker because his creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, believed “donkey” meant “stupid” in English and wanted to convey the impression that the character was a “stupid ape.”

••• Thought for the Day: “By walking on the right path, you create a golden fate for yourself and you also become a silver lining for the others!” — Mehmet Murat ildan