Fast Facts
April 23, 2007
- Alligators have brains about the size of a human thumb.
Chickens can run as fast as 9 mph.
You can buy a gold-plated Slinky for $100.
Boris Yeltsin’s favorite Elvis song is “”Are You Lonesome Tonight?””
If a walrus eats enough food, it can grow wider than its own length.
A female black bear can weigh 300 pounds, but her babies weigh only half a pound at birth.
A greyhound can run as fast as 41 mph.
Twenty-three publishers rejected Dr. Seuss’s first book.
Before 1963, there were no zip codes.
Thirteen percent of American men say they call their mothers every day. Thirty-two percent of women call their mothers daily.
In 1962, a Rhodesian man was stung by bees 2,443 times and survived.
Sixty-five percent of American adolescents get acne.
The movie “”Grease”” was released in Venezuela under the name “”Vaselina.””
Your big toes have only two bones. The rest of your toes have three each.
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and most shallow ocean on Earth.
