- One of the reasons rats are used as the primary animals for "animal testing" is that they can not vomit.
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- In 1915, a telephone call from New York to San Fransisco cost $20.70 for the first three minutes.
- At 90 degrees(F) below zero, your breath will freeze in midair and fall to the ground.
- Queen Anne (1665-1714) outlived all of her seventeen children.
- Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohion into the Union.
- A squirrel lives about nine years.
- In 1885, The Home Insurance Company of Chicago was the tallest building in the world. The skyscraper was nine stories tall.
- In 1944, Fidel Castro was voted Cuba's best schoolboy athlete (he was a lefthanded pitcher).
- Reykjavík, Iceland, is warmer than Chicago in the winter.
- An ostrich's intestinal tract is up to 45 feet long.
- 7'1" basketball great Wilt Chamberlain was the son of 5'8" parents.
- Pigs can become alcoholics.
- The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish and Portuguese.
- The Mulberry Garden was once a center of prostitution in London. It is now the site of Buckingham Palace.
- Official studies have found that righthanded people tend to scratch with their left hands and vice-versa.
- The average American eats 286 eggs per year.
- The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
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