Fast Facts

July 2, 2007

On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonald’s Big Mac bun.

The diameter of the wire in a standard paper clip is 1 millimeter, or about 0.04 inches.

Too much caffeine can cause heart palpitations.

It used to be law in France that children’s names had to be taken from an official government list.

Trivia is the Roman goddess of sorcery, hounds and the crossroads.

Ivan IV (“”The Terrible””) was the first Tsar of Russia.

In a city in Switzerland, it was once against the law to slam your car door.

Baseball games between college teams have been played since the Civil War.

Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.

A baby beaver stays with its parents for a period of two years.

Giant squid have eyes as large as watermelons.

Seventy percent of all boats sold are used for fishing.

You share a birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.

Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40,320 ways to rearrange the other eight reindeer who pull Santa’s sleigh.

Count de Grisley was the first magician to perform the trick of sawing a lady in half, in 1699.

November 29 is National Sinky Day, a day to eat over one’s sink and worship it.

The earliest document in Latin in a woman’s handwriting is an invitation to a birthday party from the first century C.E.

The most common name for a boat in 1996 was Serenity.

Orville Wright was involved in the first aircraft accident. His passenger, a Frenchman, was killed.

There was once a town named 6 in West Virginia.

If you come from Manchester, you are a Manchurian.

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