Fast Facts
August 23, 2007
In the last 3,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
There was room for 150 knights around King Arthur’s famous round table.
Ethiopia means “”the land of sunburned faces”” in Greek.
Thirty-eight percent of North America is wilderness.
The odds of hitting the jackpot on the average slot machine are 889 to one.
The first woman to wear shorts at Wimbledon – on the center court – was Lili de Alvarez in 1931.
Cream does not weigh as much as milk.
One percent of British women think their legs are perfect.
Jean Harlow was the first actress to appear on the cover of Life magazine.
In film-editing lingo, R2-D2 – the robot in Star Wars – means Reel 2, Dialogue 2.
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
Women suffer more tooth decay than men do.
The top speed on the Zamboni ice-resurfacing machine is 9 miles per hour.
William Shakespeare was the first person to refer to a coward as a chicken.
“”Race car”” is a palindrome.
