Fast Facts
September 27, 2006
The name of the Statue of Liberty is Mother of Exiles. The book the statue is holding reads “”July IV, MDCCLXXVI.”” The statue’s mouth is 3 feet wide.
The Chinese ideogram for trouble depicts two women living under one roof.
Nestle is the largest company in Switzerland, yet more than 98 percent of its revenue comes from outside the country.
Soccer is played in more countries than any other sport.
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his hat to keep his head cool. He changed it every two innings.
The most venomous of all snakes, the Inland Taipan, has enough venom in one bite to kill more than 200 mice.
If a statue of a person on a horse depicts the horse with both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Miss Piggy’s measurements are 27-20-36.
Sharks’ fossil record dates back more than twice as far as those of the dinosaurs.
The average 4-year-old child asks more than 400 questions a day.
A fierce gust of wind blew 45-year-old Vittorio Luise’s car into a river near Naples, Italy, in 1980. He managed to break a window, climb out and swim to shore, where a tree blew over and killed him.
