Fast Facts

February 19, 2007

Full-grown grizzly bears can bite through a half-inch of steel.

Surgeons who listen to music during operations perform better than those who don’t.

Oregon has the most ghost towns of any state.

Technically speaking, there are only 46 states in the United States. Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia are commonwealths.

Eschatology is the study of final events as spoken of in the Bible.

It is legal for a dead person to vote if he or she died after mailing in an absentee ballot.

Every four seconds, somebody in the world opens a can of Spam.

The first reported car theft in America took place in St. Louis in 1905.

A custom furniture maker in
Lipan, Texas, erected a 26-foot rocking chair in 2001.

A New Yorker could eat out every night of his or her life and never eat at the same restaurant twice.

The swine flu vaccine of 1976 caused more sickness and death than the flu itself.

Walt Disney World generates about 56 tons of trash every day.

Tiffany and Co. is responsible for making the
Super Bowl trophy.

A flea can jump 30,000 times without taking a break.

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