Fast Facts
August 30, 2007
The Arctic tern flies from the North Pole to the South Pole and then back again to spend summer in both places.
People with wooden floors are good at Scrabble, according to Ikea.
Seventy percent of the world’s pirated goods come from China.
The Basenji is the only dog that doesn’t bark.
People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights.
Only 7 percent of homes in Afghanistan have flushing toilets, but 19 percent have a television.
The chameleon can focus its eyes separately to watch two objects at once.
The odds are 1 in 10,000 that you will get injured by a toilet this year.
Sheryl Crow’s front two teeth are fake – she knocked them out when she tripped on the stage earlier in her career.
The kangaroo’s ancestors lived in trees. Today there are eight different species of tree kangaroos.
When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn’t understand German.
Einstein was once offered the presidency of Israel. He declined, saying he had no head for problems.
Many snakes never stop growing. That’s one reason they must shed their skin.
The streets of ancient Mesopotamia became literally knee-deep in rubbish. They never put a proper trash-removal system in place.
Woodpeckers don’t get headaches from all that pecking. Their skulls have air pockets to cushion the brain.
