Fast Facts

April 17, 2007

Sound travels through steel 15 times faster than it travels through air.

Only two percent of Antarctica is ice-free.

You can lose up to a third of your blood and still survive.

Fifteen percent of drivers get 76 percent of all traffic tickets.

Superman had a pet monkey named Beppo.

Bras were first advertised on TV by live models in 1987.

Proportionately, if a child ate as much as a growing bird, he or she would eat three lambs and one calf each day.

Nine boxes of Jell-O are sold every second.

Left-handed people make up only 5 to 15 percent of the population.

Forty-one percent of the moon is not visible from Earth at any time.

Shaquille O’Neal was sworn in as a Miami Beach reserve police officer on December 8, 2005.

The ancient Romans dyed their hair with bird droppings.

A karaoke singing of “”We Are the World”” burns 20.7 calories.

When the ground temperature is below freezing, it can’t hail.

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