Fast Facts
April 13, 2007
- When you pop a champagne cork, it can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour.
Snapping your fingers is called a fillip.
A melcryptovestimentaphiliac is someone who compulsively steals ladies’ underwear.
The top speed of astronauts traveling to the moon is 24,679 mph.
The average American family spends $2,000 a year dining out.
In its history, six flags have been flown over Canada.
Women have a keener sense of smell than men.
IBM holds the most U.S. patents.
When mating, a hummingbird’s wings beat 200 times per second.
The last cigarette ad on TV appeared on “”The Tonight Show”” on December 31, 1970.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe a UFO may have crashed at Roswell, according to a 1997 poll.
Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female patients.
A wolf’s howl can be heard as far as seven miles away.
Seventy-six percent of Americans celebrate New Year’s Eve in groups of fewer than 20.
There was so little dialogue in the original “”Mission Impossible”” TV show that
Peter Graves, the star, once fell asleep in the middle of a scene and no one on the
set noticed.
