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Fast Facts
April 2, 2007
- Some bullfrogs pretend to be dead when captured but quickly hop away when let go.
More than half the world’s geysers are in Yellowstone National Park.
When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too.
Until 1867, Alaska was known as Russian America.
Seven minutes and 58 seconds is the longest a lunar eclipse can last.
An estimated 16 million tons of rain fall to earth every second.
Mercury is 800 degrees Fahrenheit at its equator but has ice at its north and south poles.
Approximately 14 percent of U.S. homes have a TV in the kitchen.
“”Close Encounters of the Third Kind”” is a remake of Steven Spielberg’s 1964 amateur
film “”Firelight.””
A hummingbird consumes the caloric equivalent of 228 milkshakes per day.
One of every 14 women in the United States is a natural blonde. Only one out of every 16 men is.
If you’re right handed, nails on your right hand will grow faster. If you’re left handed the nails on your left will.
Sixty-nine percent of cake eaters eat the cake first, then the frosting.
Water freezes at a higher temperature than a cockroach’s blood.
