Fast Facts
April 17, 2006
- The average caterpillar has 16 legs.
In ancient Rome, it was commonplace for a woman’s bath to have a tub filled with donkey milk and spiced with perfumed swan’s fat.
England’s Queen Anne (1665-1714) outlived all of her 17 children.
People take an average of seven minutes to fall asleep.
A fly’s taste buds are in its feet.
In 1944, Fidel Castro was voted Cuba’s best schoolboy athlete. A left-handed pitcher, Castro was later given a tryout by the Washington Senators but was turned down by the baseball club.
Official studies have found that right-handed people tend to scratch with their left hand and vice-versa.
A cat has a normal body temperature of 101.5 degrees. A dog’s temperature is 101 degrees.
An eyelash lives about five months.
The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish and Portuguese.
A U.S. government-backed study found that pigs can become alcoholics.
Surveys have concluded that the average person will use the bathroom six times during the average workday.
A telephone signal travels 100,000 miles per second.
The bee is the only insect that produces food that is eaten by man.
More than 50 percent of the time spent in U.S. courtrooms involves automobile cases.
The average American gets 410 pieces of mail a year.
A bee uses 22 muscles to sting someone.
Two of three Americans have hemorrhoids.
