Fast Facts
September 11, 2007
Dynamite contains peanuts.
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
The Wicked Witch of the West in “”The Wizard of Oz,”” Margaret Hamilton, used to be a kindergarten teacher.
If you take the Great Pyramid’s perimeter and divide it by twice its height, you get pi to the 15th place value.
An object must contain 92.5 percent of silver to be labeled sterling.
On average, one cubic mile of seawater will contain more than $11 million in silver and $117 million worth of gold.
Men’s hearts usually beat slower than women’s.
Before making it big, Sean Connery used to work as a coffin polisher.
Sarah Caldwell was the first woman to conduct the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1976.
For every minute, there are about 6,000 strikes of lightning.
Fingernails grow much faster than thumbnails.
It takes only seven pounds of pressure to take your ear off.
Babies are born without kneecaps. Children develop them between the ages of 2 and 6.
An average of 60,000 people are airborne over the United States at any given moment.
More ATM machines are found at 7-Eleven convenience stores than anywhere else in the United States.
Bruce Lee had flat feet, which exempted him from American military service.
Americans each average about 1,500 pounds of garbage annually.
Red M&M’s were removed in 1976 and returned nine years later.
Shakespeare’s “”Macbeth”” contains the first “”knock-knock”” joke.
A duffle bag is so called because the thick wool originally used to make the bags came from the Belgian town of Duffel.
The difference between a nook and a cranny is that the nook is a corner and the cranny is a crack.
The State Department refers to elevators as “”vertical transportation units.””
Theodore Roosevelt was the only president not to use the word “”I”” in his inaugural address.
Queen Anne’s bowlegs inspired a furniture style.
Houdini actually trained his pet dog to escape from a miniature set of handcuffs.
