Fast Facts
December 1, 2006
Sophia Loren’s sister was once married to the son of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
Richard Nixon’s favorite drink was a dry martini.
The hippopotamus has the world’s shortest sperm.
About 6 percent of murdered American men are killed by either their wife or girlfriend – or their wife who caught them with their girlfriend.
The original Aladdin story from “”Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights”” begins, “”Aladdin was a little Chinese boy.””
Dr. Jekyll’s first name is Henry.
Almost all the villains in the Bible have red hair.
Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle.
Sprinters on track teams started taking a crouching start in 1908.
The male gypsy moth can smell the virgin female gypsy moth from eight miles away.
Twelve babies will be given to the wrong parents each day.
Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Monroe all died on July 4. Jefferson and Adams died at practically the same minute of the same day.
Ghosts appear in four Shakespearian plays: “”Julius Caesar,”” “”Richard III,”” “”Hamlet”” and “”Macbeth.””
