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Fast Facts
April 17, 2007
- Most raindrops are round or doughnut shaped, not “”raindrop”” shaped.
Sound travels through steel 15 times faster than it travels through air.
Only two percent of Antarctica is ice-free.
You can lose up to a third of your blood and still survive.
Fifteen percent of drivers get 76 percent of all traffic tickets.
Superman had a pet monkey named Beppo.
Bras were first advertised on TV by live models in 1987.
Proportionately, if a child ate as much as a growing bird, he or she would eat three lambs and one calf each day.
Nine boxes of Jell-O are sold every second.
Left-handed people make up only 5 to 15 percent of the population.
Forty-one percent of the moon is not visible from Earth at any time.
Shaquille O’Neal was sworn in as a Miami Beach reserve police officer on December 8, 2005.
The ancient Romans dyed their hair with bird droppings.
A karaoke singing of “”We Are the World”” burns 20.7 calories.
When the ground temperature is below freezing, it can’t hail.
