Ketchup was once used as a medicine in the United
States. In the 1830s it was sold as Dr. Miles's Compound Extract of
Tomato.
In 1980, the Yellow Pages accidentally
listed a
Texas funeral home under frozen foods.
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died
by the
time they were 30.
The praying mantis is the only insect that
can turn
its head.
Women's hearts generally beat faster than
men's.
33 million Hershey Kisses are made each day.
Gorgias of Epirus was born during
preparation of
his mothers funeral.
Globally, bananas rank fourth after rice,
wheat and corn in human
consumption; they are grown in 130 countries worldwide, more than for
any other fruit crop.
The original "Mad Max" film cost
$300,000AUD to produce, and earned $100 Million world wide. This earned
it the record in Guinness Book of Records as the highest profit-to-cost
ratio of a motion picture, and only lost this record in 2000 to "The
Blair Witch Project".
The nerve fibres in the squid are 500 times
thicker
than a humans'.
The world's largest National park is 'Wood
Buffalo
National Park' in Canada.
African elephants cannot be domesticated.
A Boeing 707 uses four thousand gallons of
petrol
in its take-off climb.
Traveling at the speed of
the fastest
elevator in the Empire State
Building, it would take 30 minutes to reach the bottom of the Marianas
Trench.
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
On
average, the United States experiences 100,000 thunderstorms each year,
causing about 1,000 tornadoes. The National Weather Service says an
average of 42 people are killed by tornadoes annually.
One in five of the world's 2.5 million
medical
doctors are Russian.
The first taxi with metered fares were
operational
in 1907.
The number of Twinkies that Twinkie
inventor Jimmy
Dewie ate in his lifetime was 40,177.
The average human body contains enough:
iron to make a three inch nail,
sulfur to kill all fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900 pencils,
potassium to fire a toy cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap, phosphorous
to make 8 match heads, and water to fill a ten gallon tank.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given
out
during World War II were made of wood.
McDonald's three kosher restaurants in
Israel are
the only McDonald's in the world where you cannot buy a cheeseburger.
A sloth can move twice as fast in water as
it can
on land.
In the movie of the Titanic, when Jack
walks through the french doors
for dinner with Rose and her family, a camera man's reflection can be
seen on the glass.
In the movie of the Titanic, Jack Dawson
said that he learned some of his sense of seamanshiip near his home
near Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, on Lake Wissota. Trouble is, Lake
Wissota was not even there until 1917, five years after the Titanic hit
bottom.
