Fast Facts
February 22, 2007
- The wandering albatross has the largest wingspan of any bird and can glide for six days without beating its wings. It can also sleep in midair.
Miller Brewing Company donated $150,000 to its Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund in 1993 and spent $300,000 promoting the donation.
Thirty-five percent of Americans say a unibrow is a turnoff.
Buddhism is the fastest-growing religion in Ireland.
Europe is the only continent without a desert.
In 1994, Steve Christie kicked the longest field goal, 54 yards, in Super Bowl history.
The Library of Congress has 530 miles of bookshelves.
Bull sharks have been known to pursue their victims onto land.
The Pentagon spends $8,612 every second.
Hand surgeons say that if you had to lose a finger, the index finger is the best one to lose.
There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald’s Big Mac bun.
A 4,770-year-old bristlecone pine named Methuselah is the oldest living thing on Earth.
About a third of the human race has 20/20 vision.
Coca-Cola was first marketed in 1885 as an over-the-counter remedy for hangovers and headaches.
Per capita, Alaskans eat twice as much ice cream as the rest of the nation.
