Fast Facts
August 24, 2006
- Ketchup is excellent for cleaning brass, especially tarnished or corroded brass.
Sharks can travel up to 40 mph.
The longest kiss on record lasted 130 hours and 2 minutes.
No white man saw the Grand Canyon until after the Civil War. It was first entered on May 29, 1869, by the geologist John Wesley Powell.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
John D. Rockefeller was the first billionaire in the United States.
It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
In the United States, more Frisbee discs are sold each year than baseballs, basketballs and footballs combined.
The Gila monster spends about 96 percent of its life underground.
The phrase “”son of a gun”” derives from the days when women were allowed to live on naval ships. The son of the gun was one born on the ship, often near the mid-ship gun, behind a canvas screen. If the paternity was uncertain, the child was entered in the log as “”son of a gun.””
Sherlock Holmes never said, “”Elementary, my dear Watson.””
Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.
In Puritan times, to be born on a Sunday was interpreted as a sign of great sin.
Karate actually originated in India.
Karate actually originated in India.
