Fast Facts
February 2, 2007
- Beer foam will go down if you lick your finger and then stick it in the beer.
In the three weeks that baby sparrows are in the nest, their parents make 5,000 trips for food.
Americans will eat 90 acres worth of pizza today.
“”The Alphabet Song,”” “”Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”” and “”Baa, Baa Black Sheep”” are all sung to the same music, a 1765 French song titled “”Ah! Vous
dirais-je Maman.””
The U.S. Department of Agriculture “”officially recognizes”” the following as legitimate names for the hot dog: 1) weiner, 2) frankfurter, 3) frank, 4) furter, 5) hot dog.
If you tried to count off a billion seconds, it would take you 31.7 years.
In the 1700s trappers could get $1for buckskin. Hence the term buck.
If an octopus is hungry enough, it will eat its own arms.
In addition to human sacrifices, ancient Aztecs offered the gods tamales.
Fish can get seasick.
The coldest towns on earth are Verkyoyanks and Oymyakon, Siberia which have recorded temperatures as low as -95§F.
95 percent of the creatures on earth are smaller than a chicken egg.
The Pentagon uses up 666 rolls of toilet paper on an
average day.
