Fast Facts
February 23, 2007
- Emily Dickinson wrote 1,700
poems. Seven were published in her lifetime.
If aircraft carriers ran on gasoline, they’d get about six inches to the gallon.
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were both descended from England’s King Edward I.
The temperature in Antarctica once dropped 65 degrees in 12 minutes.
Honey never goes bad.
Sean Connery once had a job polishing coffins.
The United States produces 2 billion to 4 billion pounds of chicken and turkey feathers every year.
The shark model in Jaws was calledBruce – director Steven Spielberg named it after his lawyer.
The largest living thing on earth is an underground mushroom in Oregon that measures 3.5 miles across.
Forty percent of car-theft victims leave their keys in the ignition.
Prior to 1953, the slogan of L&M cigarettes was “”just what the doctor ordered.””
The words most frequently used in U.S. advertisements are “”new and
improved.””
Clouds don’t float – they fall very, very slowly.
Do you know how long it takes Earth to go around the sun? Forty-six percent of Americans don’t. (It’s a year.)
