Every major league baseball team in the U.S. buys
about eighteen thousand baseballs each season.
A suicide is committed every thirty seconds.
Of those, most are always men in the United States.
Someone paid $14,000 for the bra Marilyn Monroe wore
in Some Like It Hot.
On average, an iceberg weighs 20 million tons.
According to an old English system of time units, a
moment is one and a half minutes.
A U.S. House subcommittee determined that the chances
your doctor is a phony are 1 in 50.
Christopher Columbus was a blond.
90% of the Vitamin C present in Brussel Sprouts are
lost in cooking.
The largest wave ever recorded was near the Japanese
Island of Ishigaki in 1971. It was recorded at 85 metres high.
A
large meteorite fell in Leicestershire on 24 December 1965. Weighing
over 100 pounds it is probably the largest to have fallen in Britain in
modern times.
Dairy products make up 29% of all food consumed in
the United States.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a
cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
Japan's pampered Kobe cattle regularly get to drink
beer.
From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to
shrink in size.
A convenience store is robbed every fifteen minutes
in the United States.
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in
a cup of
coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in
rats.
More people are killed each year from bees than
snakes.
Nearly a quarter of the population of Poland was
killed in World War II.
The higher you are, the easier it is to pick up speed.
On Picarn Island, it is a criminal offence it shout '
ship ohoy' when there is in fact no ship in sight.
About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just
to make more money.
The three primary colours are red, yellow and blue.
The three secondary colours are green, orange and purple.
The River Nile has frozen over only twice in living
memory - once in the ninth century, and then again in the eleventh
century.
In
1978 the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation estimated
that 'all the tea in China' amounted to approx. 356,000 tonnes.
Far more people died from the flu after WWI than died
in the war itself.
