Fast Facts
August 29, 2007
Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes under water.
There is a town called Scrabble in Virginia.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backward.
Tigers have striped skin as well as striped fur.
In ancient Peru, when a woman found an “”ugly”” potato, it was custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.
Reindeer eat moss because it contains a chemical that stops their bodies from freezing.
Madonna, Gwen Stefani and Celine Dion are all distantly related. Stefani’s great-aunt’s mother-in-law shares the same last name as Madonna (Ciccone), and an ancestor of Madonna’s mother was married to a distant relative of Dion’s dad.
Snakes can see through their eyelids.
Roger Tullgren, noticeable as a 42-year-old male with long, black hair, tattoos and heavy metal jewelry, attended nearly 300 concerts in 2006.
A woodpecker can peck 20 times per second.
Mariesa Weber, a 5-foot-3-inch Florida woman, fell behind a 6-foot-tall bookcase in her family’s home and suffocated. She was not discovered for 11 days; her family thought she had been kidnapped.
