Fast Facts
October 19, 2007
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
When you cross cattle with buffalo you get a beefalo.
Ninety-nine percent of the buildings in Reykjavik, Iceland, are heated by natural hot springs.
Camel milk is the only milk that doesn’t curdle when boiled.
The largest Catholic church in the United States is the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.
Spider monkeys like banana daiquiris.
Ninety percent of the world’s ice is contained in the Antarctic ice sheet.
Every species of insect, without exception, has six legs.
The Beatles song, “”Martha My Dear,”” was written by Paul McCartney about his sheepdog.
Shrews and platypuses are the only mammals that are poisonous.
Richard II once had to pawn his crown because he was such a spendthrift.
Only one woman, Tracy Reed, appeared in Stanley Kubrick’s 1963 film “”Dr. Strangelove.””
Birmingham, England, has more miles of canal than Venice, Italy.
The world’s fastest racquet sport is badminton–the shuttlecock reaches speeds of nearly 200 miles per hour.
Inspector Clouseau of the “”Pink Panther”” movies, the part made famous by Peter Sellers, was originally to be played by Peter Ustinov.
Rabbits can run at up to 45 miles per hour.
Researchers believe that at least 60 percent of all e-mails are spam.
