Fast Facts
August 29, 2006
- The opera singer Enrico Caruso practiced in the bath while accompanied by a pianist in a nearby room.
Adolf Hitler was Time magazine’s Man of the Year in 1938.
Parker Brothers prints about $50 billion worth of Monopoly money in a year.
The phrase “”Often a bridesmaid, but never a bride”” actually comes from an advertisement for Listerine mouthwash.
If a frog’s mouth is held open for too long, the frog will suffocate.
Goethe couldn’t stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
One-third of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper.
Tabasco sauce is made by fermenting vinegar and hot peppers in a French oak barrel that has three inches of salt on top and is aged for three years until all the salt is diffused through the barrel.
The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 years old. They lived in China in 1910.
A cubic mile of fog is made up of less than a gallon of water.
The Kodiak grizzly bear is the world’s largest meat-eating animal living on land. The Kodiak can weigh up to 500 pounds more than any other kind of bear.
A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
A Flemish artist is responsible for the world’s smallest painting in history. It is a picture of a miller and his mill, and it was painted onto a grain of corn.
In England in the 1880s, pants was considered a dirty word.
