Fast Facts
April 13, 2006
“”Utopia”” is an ancient Greek word meaning “”nowhere.””
Dolphins have bigger brains than humans.
The almost extinct giant tortoise of the Galapagos Islands lives longer than any other animal. The 600-pounder can live to be 200 years old.
Presidents Grant, Taft, Hoover and Eisenhower never held any other elected office.
Rabbits talk to each other by thumping their feet.
In Washington, D.C., no building can be constructed taller than the Capitol.
The oldest known vegetable is the pea, used by the Chinese as far back as 2,000 B.C.
The banister of a staircase is not the handrail. A banister is one of the upright wooden poles that support the handrail. The entire structure that you might slide down is called the balustrade.
Beavers can swim underwater for 15 minutes.
Llamas have extremely bad breath.
Some grasshoppers and crickets have hearing organs on their legs.
Fish can become seasick if kept on board a ship.
Hugh Hefner was going to call his magazine Stag Party but a friend convinced him to name it Playboy.
We may see a man in the moon but the Chinese think they see a rabbit.
President Zachary Taylor never voted in a presidential election – not even his own.
The odds against a flipped coin coming up with the same side showing 10 times in a row are 1,023 to 1.
It cost a penny for a man to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge when it opened May 21, 1883. There was a 2-cent charge for sheep.
