Fast Facts
March 21, 2007
- When a turkey is panicking, it whistles.
The human body has about 60,000 miles of blood vessels.
There were two streetcars in Tennessee Williams’s “”A Streetcar Named Desire.””
The average age of a new grandparent in the United States is 47.
When a male camel spits at something, it aims for the eyes.
The average woman shaves 412 square inches of skin on her body, while the average man only shaves 48 square inches.
For every post office in the United States, there are four in India.
The city of Edinburgh, Scotland, is built on top of an extinct volcano.
Hot water weighs more than cold water.
Before 1850, most golf balls were stuffed with feathers.
The seven Gummi Bears are named Gruffi, Cubbi, Tummi, Zummi, Sunni, Gusto and Grammi.
The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
Elephants can run 20 miles per hour.
On average, every square meter of the surface of the Earth receives 240 watts of sunlight.
