Fast Facts
January 10, 2007
Frogs drink and breathe through their skin.
Four hundred McDonalds’ quarter-pounders can be made out of one cow.
There are 3,900 islands in Japan, the country of islands.
NERF, the popular children’s foam toy company, doesn’t actually stand for anything.
The American opossum, a marsupial, bears its young just 12 to 13 days after conception.
Andrew Jackson was the only
president to believe the world was flat.
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
The naked baby on the cover of Nirvana’s album Nevermind is named Spencer Eldon.
Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, was afraid of the dark.
“”Keeping Warm With an Axe”” is the title of a real how-to book.
Researchers in Denmark found that beer tastes best when drunk to the accompaniment of a certain musical tone. The optimal frequency is different for each beer, they reported.
Oliver Cromwell’s body was hanged and decapitated two years
after his death.
Louis IV of France had a stomach the size of two regular stomachs.
