Fast Facts
February 8, 2007
- The average person’s skin weighs twice as much as his or her brain.
Comedian Stan Laurel was married eight times, but had only four wives.
The glue on Israeli stamps is certified kosher.
Otters can get herpes.
The time an average American spends asleep in a lifetime equals 25 years.
Earnest Hemingway rewrote the final page of “”A Farewell to Arms”” 39 times.
Forty-six percent of all violence on television occurs in cartoons.
Each year, Americans use enough foam peanuts to fill 10 85-story skyscrapers.
Popcorn eaters are three times more likely to cry during a movie than non-popcorn eaters.
The saguaro cactus does not grow its first arm until it’s at least 75 years old.
The kid on the Cracker Jack box is named Robert.
Eleven percent of Americans have thrown out a dish just because they don’t want to wash it.
If you’re an average adult, you spend 11 to 13 minutes in the shower.
More than 25 million kids visit Santa in malls nationwide each year.
The common flu kills 20,000 people each year.
