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Fast Facts
August 1, 2007
Camera shutter speed B stands for “”bulb.””
Less than two percent of the water on Earth is fresh.
Rio de Janeiro translates to “”River of January.””
The Slinky was invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the strings.
The nest of the bald eagle can weigh well over a ton.
The first Western consumer product sold in the former Soviet Union was Pepsi Cola.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard’s fish was named Livingston.
Doughnuts originated in Holland.
The Old English word for sneeze is fneosam.
If you live in Michigan, it is illegal to put a skunk in your boss’s desk.
November 19 is Have a Bad Day Day.
The armhole in clothing is called an armsaye.
Since the 1930s, the town of Corona, Calif., has lost all 17 of the time capsules it originally buried.
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck has been struck by lightning twice in his life.
While Jules Verne is often considered the father of science fiction, at the time his stories were referred to as “”scientific
romances.””
A group of goats is called a trip.
Roosters cannot crow if they can’t fully extend their necks.
Bill Bowerman, founder of Nike, got his first shoe idea after staring at a waffle iron. He got the idea of using squared spikes to make shoes lighter.
During World War II, the Navajo language was used successfully as a code by the United States.
Two and five are the only prime numbers that end in two or five.
The monastic hours are matins, lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers and compline.
The food of the Greek gods was called ambrosia.
