Fast Facts
April 16, 2007
- In medieval Japan, dentists extracted teeth with their hands.
The odds of being killed by a bolt of lightning are about the same as those of being killed by falling out of bed.
Horses can breathe only through their nostrils.
Roughly three-quarters of the universe is nothing more than hydrogen. Helium composes most of the remaining matter, as less than 1 percent is made up of all the other naturally occurring elements.
Sigmund Freud charged the equivalent of $8.10 an hour for his therapy sessions.
Ancient Rome had a rent-a-chariot business.
The water in our bodies has the same saltiness as the sea.
The word “”sermon”” does not appear in the Bible.
A mouse reaches sexual maturity in roughly 35 days.
It takes 500,000 years for plutonium-239 (used in nuclear weapons and reactors) to become harmless.
According to anthropologists, witch doctor is the world’s oldest profession.
Americans consume more than 20 pounds of candy per person per year.
Napoleon Bonaparte was afraid of cats.
Freud smoked 20 cigars a day.
Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare have no living descendants.
Sheep snore.
The Statue of Liberty is patented.
