Fast Facts

February 26, 2007

Rod Stewart once worked as a gravedigger.

One in every five potatoes grown in the United States is made into french fries.

When actors are filmed in a car through the windshield, there’s usually no rear view mirror.

The kernel inside a peach pit is poisonous.

Seventy-six percent of U.S. commuters drive to work alone.

George Washington had size 13 feet.

For years the globe on the NBC “”Nightly News”” spun in the wrong direction.

In Oklahoma, you can be fined for making funny faces at dogs.

Babies are born without kneecaps.

As a 5-foot-11 sophomore, Michael Jordan was cut from his high school varsity basketball team.

Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath crown to hide his baldness.

Melting an ice cube in your mouth burns about 2.3 calories.

The fifth most popular plastic surgery performed on U.S. males is breast reduction.

Kentucky produces more whiskey than every other state combined.

Australia has a robot that shears sheep. Japan has one that makes sushi.

Artichokes are flowers.

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner owns the crypt next to his first centerfold, Marilyn Monroe, at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.

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