Fast Facts
January 26, 2007
- The koala is one of the few animals that does not need to drink water to survive.
George Washington’s false teeth were made of whale bone, not wood.
Pluto, the astrological sign for death, was directly above Dallas when John F. Kennedy was born.
The harmless whale shark holds the title of the largest fish, with the record being a 59-footer captured in Thailand in 1919.
Men are 1.6 more likely to undergo bypass surgery than women.
The world record for most children born to one mother is 69 children.
? Nine percent of Americans report having been in the presence of a ghost.
50 percent of bank robberies take place on Fridays.
The odds of being killed by a dog are one in 700,000.
Anteaters actually prefer termites to ants. They don’t have any teeth or jaws, and their sticky tongue measures more than a foot long.
Terrier is from the Latin word terra meaning “”earth.””
Basketball was invented by Canadian James Naismith in 1891.
At one point, the Circus Maximus in Rome could hold up to 250,000 people.
The English word soup comes from the Middle Ages word sop, which means a slice of bread over which roast drippings were poured.
Six words in the English language have the letter combination uu: muumuu, vacuum, continuum, duumvirate, duumvir and residuum.
Zoophobia is the fear of animals.
The movie Paris, Texas was banned in the city of Paris, Texas, shortly after its box-office release.
