Fast Facts

May 6, 2007

Michael Jordan always wore his North Carolina basketball shorts under his
Chicago Bulls uniform.

Hexadactylism is the condition of having six fingers on one hand or six toes on one foot.

The average meteor is no larger than a grain of sand.

Twenty-nine percent of Americans say most of the meals they eat are made from leftovers.

A newborn’s skin is wrinkled because it’s too big for its body.

Thunder is caused when air rushes into the vacuum created by a bolt of lightning.

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in Indiana.

Neptune’s summer is 40 years long.

In 1959, Eleanor Roosevelt made a TV commercial for Good Luck margarine.

Bayer trademarked the name Heroin in 1898, one year prior to the trademark of Aspirin.

Trans-Canada Highway is the longest national highway in the world.

William Moulton Marston, the creator of Wonder Woman, also invented the polygraph.

The United States has almost 4 million miles of roads and streets.

Of the 80,000 known species of plants, only 50 are cultivated regularly.

An ostrich’s eyes are bigger than its brains.

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