Fast Facts
April 12, 2007
- One teaspoon of yogurt contains more than one billion live and active bacteria.
The letter “”w”” is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn’t have one syllable. It has three.
Carbonated water can dissolve limestone, talc, and many other low-Mohs hardness minerals. Coincidentally, carbonated water is the main ingredient.
A man named Ed Peterson is the inventor of the Egg McMuffin.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on “”Leave it to Beaver.””
Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the first American to have plumbing
installed in his house.
Influenza caused more than twenty million deaths in 1918.
In a 1990 preschool poll, Mister Rogers was the first choice for president of the United States.
The average person’s skeleton accounts for about 20 percent of his or her body weight.
It takes 4,000 grains of sugar to fill a
teaspoon.
It takes about 21 pounds of milk to make one pound of butter.
Among other things, the ancient Egyptians worshipped cabbages.
In Greek mythology, Nike is the goddess of victory.
Bozo the clown wore size 83AAA shoes.
Mushrooms share a common ancestry with insects, not plants.
