Fast Facts

April 19, 2007

Very thin, weak ice is known as “”cat ice”” because it can’t even support the weight of a cat.

One lump of sugar is the equivalent of three feet of sugar cane.

Hair is unique to mammals.

In 1923, Pierre Labric rode his bicycle down all 347 stairs of the Eiffel Tower. It took him 3 minutes, 17 seconds. His bike was severely damaged.

Elaine Davidson of Edinburgh, Scotland has a record-breaking 720 body piercings. 192 are on her face.

Twenty-six percent of American men say their workplace filing system consists of “”putting things in piles.””

On average, Italians get 42 vacations per year.

The five states with the most senior citizens are Florida, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, North Dakota and Iowa.

There were 20 days in the Aztec week.

In the Congo, professional corpse painters charge admission to see their work.

Every thousand years, spring gets two-thirds of a day shorter.

John Lennon was the first person to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.

It takes six months to build a Rolls-Royce and 13 hours to build a Toyota.

A certain species of fern has 630 pairs of chromosomes, the most of any organism.

About 1 million people drink some kind of cola for breakfast.

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