Fast Facts
January 29, 2007
- There are mice that nest in trees. These creatures may spend their whole lives without ever touching the ground.
A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes at least 20 minutes to stop.
The strength of early lasers was measured in Gillettes, the number of blue razor blades a given beam could puncture.
All the gold produced in the past 500 years, if melted, could be compressed into a 50-foot cube.
Why do beers come in packs of six? Breweries thought six beers were “”the maximum a woman could safely carry.””
You can sweat as much as three gallons a day in a hot climate.
He wasn’t blind, but Thomas Edison preferred reading in Braille.
Chance that a driver will swerve out of a lane of traffic while talking on a cell phone: 7 percent.
It’s impossible to lick your elbow. Try it.
Sixty percent of pets in Great Britain have some form of health insurance.
The original name for butterfly was the flutterby.
Cleveland spelled backwards is DNA level C.
Termites eat wood twice as fast while listening to heavy metal music.
In 1944, to let the public know that bananas should be allowed to ripen at room temperature, not in the refrigerator, United Fruit commissioned a song and a character: Chiquita Banana. The song was so popular that it was once played on the radio 376 times in one day.
Australian soldiers used “”We’re Off to See the Wizard”” as a marching song during World War II.
Odds that you’ll be killed by a plane falling from the sky: one in 25 million. Odds that it will happen today: one in 7 trillion.
In a survey, 2.1 percent of nose pickers said they did so “”for enjoyment.””
In Japan, one can rent a dog as a companion for $20 an hour.
