Fast Facts

September 20, 2007

“”Able was I ere I saw Elba”” is a palindrome – a statement that reads the same backward as forward – written by Napoleon.

More than half of all the mushrooms cultivated in the United States are grown in Pennsylvania.

Charles Dickens wrote “”A Christmas Carol”” in only six weeks.

Neither horses nor rabbits can vomit.

President Kennedy’s wife, Jacqueline, had the recipe for daiquiris pinned to the wall of the White House kitchen. It was the couple’s favorite drink.

In Denmark, the Danish pastry is known as Vienna bread.

England first introduced sex education in schools in 1889.

A can of Spam is opened every four seconds.

Maine is the only state that borders only one other state.

The word “”monosyllable”” has five syllables.

Jockeys are strapped to their mounts with Velcro during camel races in Abu Dhabi.

The seven seas of the world are the North Atlantic, South Atlantic, North Pacific, South Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans.

Florida is the only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles coexist.

Mighty Mouse’s arch-nemesis was Oil Can Harry.

Woodrow Wilson is the only president buried in Washington’s National Cathedral.

One million bats make their home under the Congress Avenue bridge in Austin, Texas, every night.

McDonald’s restaurants in New Zealand serve apricot pies instead of cherry ones.

Forty-three percent of Americans regularly attend religious services.

Kate Smith was known as the “”First Lady of Radio.””

Alberta, Canada, has been completely free of rats since 1905.

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