Fast Facts
August 30, 2006
According to ceremonial customs of Orthodox Judaism, it is officially sundown when you cannot tell the difference between a black thread and a red thread.
Tokyo has the world’s largest bowling alley.
When CBS broadcast the first television show in color, no one other than CBS owned a color television set.
You’re more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider.
In Omaha, Neb., it’s against the law to burp or sneeze in a church.
Alligators cannot move backwards.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages it.
It takes an average of 48 to 100 tries to solve a Rubik’s Cube puzzle. If done perfectly, any Rubik’s Cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.
Flamingo tongues were a common delicacy at Roman feasts.
When Saigon fell, the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby’s “”White Christmas”” being played on the radio.
Euripides was the first person on record to denounce slavery.
The two best-known cat noises are roaring and purring. Only four species can roar – lions, leopards, tigers and jaguars – and they don’t purr.
Two out of five husbands tell their wives daily that they love them.
Fidel Castro was once a star baseball player for the University of Havana in the 1940s.
