Fast Facts
February 20, 2008
Approximately 7.5 percent of all office documents get lost.
A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax.
A 4-month-old fetus will become startled and turn away if a light is flashed on the mother’s abdomen.
A person infected with the SARS virus has a 95 to 98 percent chance of recovery.
A meteor has only destroyed one satellite – the European Space Agency’s Olympus in 1993.
A person uses about 57 sheets of toilet paper each day.
More than 11,000 people have visited a tortilla chip in New Mexico that appears to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it.
Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls were sold in the June 1, 1954 issue of the Wall Street Journal.
An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
98 percent of houses in the United States have at least one television set.
7-Eleven is the largest retail chain on the planet.
Bill Gates started to program computers at age 13.
Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
