Fast Facts
November 25, 2006
- The end of a hammer, opposite the striking end, is called a peen.
The average mouse pad is 8.75 inches by 7.5 inches.
Mozart is buried in an unmarked pauper’s grave.
Tonsurphobia is fear of haircuts.
Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in the first three “”Star Wars”” movies, was a hospital porter in London before starring as the Wookie.
Tom Cruise at one time wanted to be a priest.
While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate 85.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
Camel’s milk does not curdle.
The Bible is the number-one shoplifted book in America.
The average person speaks about 31,500 words per day.
A young shepherd boy discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran, Jordan, in 1947.
Bacteria, the tiniest free-living cells, are so small that a single drop of liquid contains as many as 50 million of them.
Ice cream was originally made without sugar and eggs. Seaweed is one of the ingredients in some ice cream.
In the 1940s, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it “”bitch.””
