The October 7, 1916, American
football game between the Georgia Tech Engineers and the Cumberland
College Bulldogs (now Cumberland University) was the most-lopsided game
in the history of college football. Georgia Tech won, 222–0.
On average there is about 3,000 feet of electrical
wiring in every car.
A silicon chip a quarter-inch square has the capacity
of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.
In 1977, a 13-year-old boy discovered a tooth growing
on his left foot.
Camel's milk does not curdle.
In 1939 the U.S. political party 'The American Nazi
Party' had 200,000 members.
Sir Isaac Newton was obsessed with the occult and the
supernatural.
John Winthrop introduced the fork to the American
dinner table for the first time on 25 June 1630.
North American Indians ate Watercress to dissolve
gravel and stones in the bladder.
Each of the Space huttle's solid rocket boosters
burns 5 tons of propellant per second.
On average, an iceberg weighs 20 million tons.
The world's largest exporter of sugar is Cuba.
It requires 30 muscles to raise your eyebrows.
If you could drive to the sun -- at 55 miles per hour
-- it would take about 193 years.
Only 14% Americans have
skinny-dipped with the opposite sex.
The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the
Adam's Apple.
The city of Hiroshima left the Industrial Promotion
Centre standing as a monument of the atomic bombing.
1 kg of lemons contain more sugar than
1 kg of
strawberries.
Tibetans rub themselves down with rancid yak fat to
keep themselves warm.
In the early '80s, a toad was discovered that meows
instead of croaking.
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for
betting on when patients would die.
If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures
87 feet long.
Goats produce cashmere.
The Dutch in general prefer their french fries with
mayonnaise.
The Bronx Zoo gets defibrinated blood in five gallon
buckets from a slaughter house to feed the Vampire bats.
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