Aug. 8th mind blowing random thought of the day: When actor Marlon Brando won the 1973 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the movie ‘The Godfather,’ he refused to accept it in order to protest the film industry’s poor treatment of Native Americans. When a young Native American woman accepted the award in Brando’s place, many in the crowd booed during her speech.
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The United States is only slightly smaller than the entirety of the continent of Europe.
Fuck me 
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Texas is only slightly smaller than the whole of Turkey---- jeesus
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And you can fit 3 Texases into Nunavut, which is populated by an estimate of roughly 40,000 people. 
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No way, I’m not having nanuvat:joy:
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Aug. 9th mind blowing random thought of the day: The entire border between Canada and the U.S. is defined by a 20 foot wide deforested strip of land called “the Slash.”
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I discovered this firsthand while out backpacking near the border in provincial parks here. Pretty neat!
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Aug. 10th mind blowing random thought of the day: Currently, 4 people on the Hollywood Walk of Fame have both their name and their iconic character listed: Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse, Jim Henson and Kermit the Frog, Mel Blanc and Bugs Bunny, and Mike Myers and Shrek.
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Aug. 11th mind blowing random thought of the day: Missouri is the first state to have amended wildlife conservation into its state constitution, which was done in 1935 in order to prevent it from being easily repealed by a statewide referendum.
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Aug. 12th mind blowing random thought of the day: The word “uvula,” which only humans have, is derived from the Latin word meaning “little grape.”
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Aug. 13th mind blowing random thought of the day: It takes approx. 10 years for a cigarette to fully decompose.
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Aug. 14th mind blowing random thought of the day: It takes an average of 600 milliseconds for the brain to find the next word needed in a sentence while having a conversation.
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How do they know, how do they know! 
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I know that sometimes I could almost count the SECONDS ‘till I choose (remember) the next word I want to use in a sentence.
And then I start to worry about how much damage did alcohol do to my brain…
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I know my memory is not what it was. But I don’t know how much is down to age!
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I’d like to think it’s the age thing, you know 
I even sometimes say things like “Well, when you reach a certain age…” (though I mostly do it so that people perhaps would say “Ooooh, but you don’t look like you’re 43!”… which on rare occasions they do and then I’m all modest and stuff… I really should talk to my therapist )
I love it when people say I don’t look 52!
You’re 52?!?! Well, you certainly don’t look like you are! 
Hahahaha.
Funny!
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Aug. 15th mind blowing random thought of the day: Harry Potter’s owl Hedwig was named after the patron saint of orphaned and abandoned children.
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