Fast Facts
April 8, 2007
- While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard.
The number of bridge hands possible is 54 octillion.
Fort Worth, Texas, was never a fort.
The world’s highest city is Lhasa, Tibet. It is 12,087 feet above sea level.
The abbreviation for pound, “”lb.,””comes from the astrological sign Libra.
The heel of a sock is called the “”gore.””
Every second, 100,000 chemical reactions occur in your brain.
Sneakers get their name because they don’t squeak the same way leather shoes do.
It takes four hours to weave a hula skirt from 60 ti plants. The skirt will last about five days.
It’s impossible to snore in the weightlessness of space.
The jaws of an eight-foot shark exert a force of 20 tons per square inch.
Ancient Turks hated the number 13 so much it was almost expunged from their vocabulary.
The average American female will have 3.3 pregnancies in her lifetime.
The record for most haircuts given in one hour is 23 and is held by Sandy Dobbie.
It took Al Gliniecki of Gulf Breeze, Florida, three minutes to tie 39 cherry stems into knots with his tongue.
