Fast Facts
November 2, 2006
- A squirrel cannot contract or carry the rabies virus.
In Oklahoma, it is against the law to hunt a whale.
It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have been only 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.
The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. There were named by former mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.
On the stone temples of Madura in southern India, there are more than 30 million carved images of gods and goddesses.
The first U.S. coin to bear the words United States of America was a penny made in 1727. It was also inscribed with the plain-spoken motto “”Mind your own business.””
Experts at Intel say that microprocessor speed will double every 18 months for at least 10 years.
A temperature of 70 million degrees Celsius was generated at Princeton University in 1978. This was during a fusion experiment and is the highest man-made temperature ever.
Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to power a TV for three hours.
Small cockroaches are more likely to die on their backs than large cockroaches.
An iguana can stay underwater for 28 minutes.
The mouse in the most common mammal in the U.S.
Bill Gates’ first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines that recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.
Before Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat was the most popular cartoon character. He was the first cartoon character to ever have been made into a balloon for a parade.
The only real food U.S. astronauts are allowed to eat in space are pecan nuts.
A baseball has exactly 108 stitches.
A top freestyle swimmer achieves a speed of only 4 mph. Fish, in contrast, have been clocked at 68 mph.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most well-known player on the market was the Victrola, so the company called itself Motorola.
