Fast Facts

Things you've always never wanted to know

Published: Monday, February 12, 2007

Updated: Sunday, July 26, 2009

In her films, Shirley Temple always had 56 curls in her hair.
A blue whale's heart is as big as a compact car.
In 1995, the Kellogg Company paid $2,400 to a man whose kitchen was damaged by a flaming Pop-Tart.
The moped is the vehicle with the best safety record in Europe.
Pound for pound, sheep out-eat cows seven to one.
There has never been a documented human death caused by piranhas.
In the next seven days, 800 Americans will be injured by their jewelry.
On August 30, 1995, Sean Shannon of Canada recited Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy in 23.8 seconds - an average of 655 words per minute.
Shakespeare coined the terms, "into thin air," "one fell swoop" and "kill with kindness."
The heaviest and longest dog ever recorded was an Old English mastiff named Zorba who weighed 343 pounds and, from nose to tail, measured 8 feet 3 inches.
Jellyfish are 99 percent water.
Too much caffeine can cause hand tremors, loss of coordination or appetite, insomnia and in extreme cases, trembling, nausea, heart palpitations and diarrhea.
John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
According to a Gallup poll, one in seven Americans can't locate the United States on a map.

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