Fast Facts
October 5, 2006
Values on the Monopoly game board are the same today as they were in 1935.
Scatologists are experts who study feces.
Eighty five percent of divorced women say they are happier after their divorce or separation.
The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
The longest inaugural address by a U.S. president was given by William Henry Harrison. It was 1 hour, 45 minutes long during an intense snowstorm. One month later, he died of pneumonia.
Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
The first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
The youngest golfer recorded to have shot a hole-in-one is 5-year-old Coby Orr of Littleton, Colo., on the 103-yard fifth hole at the Riverside Golf Course in San Antonio, Texas, in 1975.
The Apollo 11 had only 20 seconds of fuel left when it landed.
Toads don’t have teeth, but frogs do.
Elvis Presley had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth. Elvis’s middle name was spelled Aron in honor of his brother.
“”King Kong”” was Adolf Hitler’s favorite movie.
