Fast Facts
December 2, 2007
About 70 percent of the Earth is covered with water, but only one percent of that water is drinkable.
Richard Milhous Nixon’s name contains all the letters from the word “”criminal.”” He was the first U.S. president to hold this distinction.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms a day.
The Red Sea is named after the algae that, when dying, turns the sea’s normally intense blue-green water to red.
Gold is so rare that all of the pure gold produced in the last 500 years would fit inside a 50-foot cube.
Nosology is the study of the classification of diseases.
An astronaut orbiting Earth can see as many as 16 sunrises and sunsets every 24 hours.
Vatican City is the country with the lowest divorce rate. It is also the country with the lowest birth rate.
One-hump camels run faster than two-hump camels.
Between 1947 and 1959, 42 nuclear devices were detonated in the Marshall Islands in the northwest Pacific Ocean.
Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.
The 1960 movie “”Thirteen Ghosts”” was shown in what was called Illusion-O, which required the audience to wear special glasses to see the ghouls onscreen.
Grey Nurse sharks are cannibals even before they’re born. The young grow jaws and teeth while still in the uterus, and sometimes devour each other inside the womb.
Lucky Charms cereal once offered green tree-shaped marshmallows as a promotion for Earth Day.
Animal crackers come in 18 different “”species.””
The water in Utah’s Great Salt Lake is six times saltier than seawater.
