Fast Facts

October 30, 2007

The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint; no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

Ferrets can sleep up to 20 hours a day

Teddy Roosevelt was so keen on boxing he had a boxing rind installed in the White House

Before he discovered his real vocation as a lover and libertine, Casanova was preparing for priesthood.

When asked what he thought about Western civilization, Mahatma Gandhi replied “”I think it would be a good idea.””

The Earth’s atmosphere is proportionately thinner than apple skin.

Australian five-, ten-, twenty-, fifty- and one-hundred-dollar notes are made of plastic.

According to the Bible, there are 12
pearly gates.

The oldest driver in the 1979 Le Mans 24-hour endurance race was 54-year-old actor Paul Newman.

More cat food is bought in Great Britain each year than can be eaten by the number of cats in the country.

Bombay duck is really dry, salted fish.

If the population of China began walking past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Any free-flowing liquid form itself into a sphere in outer space because of its surface tension.

A teaspoonful of neutron star material would weigh about 110 million tons.

Queen Victoria was the first woman to use chloroform during childbirth.

Burt Reynolds now lives in what was once the Florida holiday home of gangster Al Capone.

In the early days of Hollywood, Western sets were made to seven-eights scale to make the heroes seem larger.

Jamaica’s main export is bauxite, which is used to make aluminum.

Facts courtesy of “”The Book of Useless Information”” and “”The Pocket Idiot’s Guide: Not So Useless Information””

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