Fast Facts
March 22, 2007
- A bison can jump as high as 6 feet off the ground.
There are more donut shops per capita in Canada than in any other country.
The letters KGB stand for Komitet
Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnos.
Clinophobia is the fear of beds.
A baby caribou is so swift it can easily outrun its mother when it is only three days old.
A tornado once swept a toddler out of his bed and set him down safely 50 feet away without removing his blankets.
The average length of time a child spends watching an episode of “”Sesame Street”” is 8 minutes.
The language of Taki, which is spoken in parts of Guinea, consists of only 340 words.
Tibetans drink a tea made of salted rancid yak butter.
The calories in a bagel with cream cheese can run an electric toothbrush for 52 hours and 20 minutes.
Detroit was the first city in the United States to install a stoplight.
Horripilation is the technical term for goose bumps.
Some sharks can detect the heartbeats of other fish.
Slinkys have been used as makeshift antennae for soldiers during the Vietnam War and as therapeutic tools for stroke victims.
The Pentagon spent $50 million on Viagra for American troops and retirees in 1999.
