Fast Facts
February 15, 2007
- King Louis XIV owned 413 beds.
Bark of the giant sequoia tree can be up to 2 feet thick.
There are 364 gifts in “”The Twelve Days of Christmas.””
The first song ever sung in space was “”Happy Birthday to You,”” which was performed by Apollo 9 astronauts on March 8, 1969.
On an average day Canada
imports 822 hockey sticks from Russia.
In 2002 runner Tom Johnson ran an 80-kilometer race (about 50 miles) against a horse – and beat it by 10 seconds.
There were 30 more countries in 2005 than in 1990.
Rain contains vitamin B12.
It’s about 10 times easier to shoot a hole-in-one while golfing than it is to score a perfect 300 game while bowling.
Diamonds will not dissolve in acid.
Each year insects eat 1/3 of the world’s food crops.
If all the Slinkys ever made were lined up, they would wrap around the world 126 times.
In the 1940s the Bich pen was changed to Bic. The company feared Americans would pronounce it as “”bitch.””
Benjamin Franklin was America’s first newspaper cartoonist.
Hummingbirds fly 60 miles per hour.
