FastFacts
October 31, 2006
- The Saguaro Cactus, found in the southwestern United States, doesn’t grow branches until it is 75 years old.
Americans spend more than $5.4 billion on their pets each year.
The average life of a nuclear power plant is 40 years.
Ancient Sumerians thought the liver made blood and the heart was the center of thought.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
In the early days of silent films, there was blatant thievery. Unscrupulous film companies would steal the film, re-shoot a scene or two, and release it as a new production. To combat this, the Biograph Company put the company’s trademark initials, AB, somewhere in every scene – on a door, a wall or a window.
Elvis never gave an encore.
Sheryl Crow’s two front teeth are fake. She knocked them out when she tripped onstage early in her career.
Michael Jackson is black.
Odds that a burglary in the United States will be solved: one in seven.
Italian artist Constantino Brumidi fell from the dome of the U.S. Capitol while painting a mural around the rim in 1879. He died four months later.
