Fast Facts
January 30, 2007
- A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Ind.
The book “”Green Eggs and Ham”” contains only 50 words.
Columbus traveled at an average speed of 2.8 mph on his first voyage across the sea.
Lego has manufactured more than 189 billion pieces in 2,000 different shapes since 1949, about 30 Lego pieces for every living person on Earth.
If you feed a wild moose often enough it will begin to attack people who don’t feed it.
Moscow is closer to Washington, D.C., than Honolulu is.
The French typing equivalent of “”The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog”” is “”Take this old whiskey to the blonde judge who’s smoking a cigar.””
Amen is the same in more languages than any other word. Taxi is second.
The world has been at peace only 8 percent of the time over the last 3,500 years.
Golf was banned in England in 1457 because it was a distraction from archery.
