Fast Facts
January 12, 2007
The Future’s Museum in Sweden contains a scale model of the solar system. The sun is 105 meters in diameter, and the planets range from 5 millimeters to 6 kilometers from the sun. This particular model also contains the nearest star Proxima Centauri, still scale, situated in the Museum of Victoria … in Australia.
Seven percent of Americans think Elvis Presley is still alive.
Until they were brought into the country, Australia did not have any members of the cat family, hoofed animals, apes or monkeys.
The pistol shrimp makes a noise so loud it can shatter glass.
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
The Norse considered the mistletoe a baleful plant that caused the death of
Baldur, the god of youth.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
The 102-story Empire State Building, completed in 1931, is made up of more than 10 million bricks and has 6,500 windows. It was built at a cost of $40,948,900.
Japan’s currency is considered the most difficult to counterfeit.
The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile national monuments.
If you bring a raccoon’s head to the Hennikeer, N.H. town hall, you are entitled to receive $10.
