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Fast Facts
March 6, 2006
Pluto, the Disney cartoon dog, was originally called Rover.
Plymouth Rock weighs 7 tons.
Three men who killed Sir Edmund Berry were hanged for the murder in 1911 at London’s Greenberry Hill. Their last names were Green, Berry and Hill.
Astronauts on the moon weigh only one-sixth of what they do on Earth.
Kleenex was called “”Celluwipes”” when first marketed in 1924.
One cord of wood can make 7.5 million toothpicks.
The bride wears red in China.
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that’s attached at only one end.
Droplets of moisture from a sneeze can travel as far as 12 feet and as fast as 100 mph.
If you’ve had a bellyful, you’ve had about two quarts. That’s the average adult’s stomach capacity.
“”Forty”” is the only number in English which, when spelled out, has all its letters in alphabetical order.
An ant’s sense of smell is comparable to a dog’s.
The space between your nostrils is called your columella.
It takes about 150 dead ermines to make one ermine coat.
Dog meat is a delicacy in China. So is bird’s nest soup.
A bear has 42 teeth.
A kangaroo can hop along at a clip of 40 mph.
Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand and write with the other – at the same time.
