- The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.
- 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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Fast Facts
Things you've always never wanted to know
Published: Monday, February 19, 2007
Updated: Sunday, July 26, 2009
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