Fast Facts
January 31, 2007
- Pennsylvania was the first colony to legalize witchcraft.
About 36 percent of people who make a New Year’s resolution to diet and exercise break it by Jan. 31.
If you play a round of golf and then drink two average cocktails, you will have gained more calories than you burned.
Highest price ever paid for a movie prop: $275,000, for James Bond’s Aston Martin from “”Goldfinger.””
Charles Barkley entered the NBA with the nickname “”Round Mound of Rebound.””
Left-handed people are more likely to be on the extreme ends of the intelligence scale than the general population: A higher proportion of mentally disabled people and people with IQs over 140 are lefties.
In Germany, where the idea of the Tooth Fairy originated, the tooth was not placed under a pillow. Instead, it was put in a rat hole, because it was thought that the new tooth growing in would take on the “”dental quality”” of the animal that found it.
Ancient Roman banquet halls had “”vomitoriums”” so people could keep eating after they were full.
In the 13th century, Europeans baptized children with beer.
It takes three seconds for 475 lawsuits to be filed around the world.
There is no leading cause of death for people who live past age 100.
