Every day, citizens of the United States pass more
than 9 million cubic feet of gas!
Reptilian scales evolved into feathers.
Walt Disney World in Florida is the most popular
tourist destination, not only in America, but in the world.
The most popular last name in the world is the
Chinese name Zhang and in the English-speaking world it is Smith.
The shortest street in the world is McKinley Street,
Bellefontaine, Ohio, measuring just 17 feet.
The cabbage yields the most produce of any vegetable.
Scrabble
was originally called Criss-Cross.
Sliced
bread was patented by a jeweller, Otto Rohwedder, in 1928. He had been
working on it for 16 years, having started in 1912.
In Alabama
it is illegal to carry a comb in your pocket, because it may be used as
a weapon. This comes after a 13 year old boy was killed when he was
stabbed with a comb.
The embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in
their mother's womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born.
The Chinese lettered goldfish is covered with Chinese
characters, achieved through thousands of years of crossbreeding.
In 1681, the last dodo bird died.
Thirty-three percent of Los Angelinos
have an
unlisted phone number.
Peter
the Great had the head of his wife's lover cut off and put into a jar
of preserving alcohol, which he then ordered to be placed by her bed.
For
Roman Catholics, 5 January is St Simeon Stylites' Day. He was a
fifth-century hermit who showed his devotion to God by spending
literally years sitting on top of a huge flagpole.
One of Queen Victoria's wedding gifts was a 3 metre
diameter, half tonne cheese.
The
digestive juices of crocodiles contain so much hydrochloric acid that
they have dissolved swallowed iron spearheads and six-inch steel hooks.
130 million cups of coffee are consumed every day in
the United States alone.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each
other for food.
If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while
performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
The State flag of Alaska was designed by a 13 year
old boy.
Polar bears can run as fast as 40 km/h.
Thomas Wedders, the English circus freak, had a nose
which was seven and a half inches long.
The
first computer was built in 1823. The steam driven calculating machine,
built by Charles Babbage, failed to work due to poor workmanship in the
intricate parts. When rebuilt by the Science Museum of London in 1991
it worked.
The average U.S. high school graduate has a
vocabulary of about 60,000 words.
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