Strange fact Sunday

Here is a post for Isabel, who says she has been bored.
Strange fact Sunday
#1 Square watermelons are grown in Tokyo
#2 A man was bitten by a snake that had been preserved in a bottle with a cork top, which allowed the snake to breathe
#3Can you raed this- Apratneply it dsone't mtaetr waht oderr the ltetres in a word are, the olny tihng is taht the fisrt and lsat ltetre be in the rhigt palce. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can stlil raed it whituot a porblem. Tihs is bacesue the hamun mnid deos not raed evrey ltetre by itlesf, but the wrod as a wolhe.
#4One issue of the New York Times containd more information than the average person in the 16Th century would have read throughout their entire life.
That's it! I got these facts form Ripleys Believe it or not Curioddities Seriously wierd. Check it out!