Fast Facts
August 26, 2007
Only one of every two billion people will live to be 116 or older.
Women blink nearly twice as often as men do.
Cat urine glows under a black light.
The main library at Indiana University sinks more than an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books.
A snail can sleep for three years.
A resident in an old people’s home was thrown out when she admitted she didn’t play Scrabble.
“”Go “” is the shortest complete sentence in English.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Americans eat 18 acres of pizza a year.
In Japan it is illegal for a llama to eat turnips.
There are more chickens in the world than people.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Dragonflies live only 24 hours.
