3:53 p.m. - 2004-09-09
Real facts.
1. The word “factious” features all the vowels in alphabetical order.
2. The oil in cashews helps prevent tooth decay.
3. Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
4. The first food eaten in space by astronaut was applesause.
5. No two lip impressions are the same.
6. A tune that gets stuck in your head is called an earworm.
7. Ohio is the only U.S. state that does not have a rectangular.
8. It took the first man to walk around the world 4 years, 3 months and 6 days to complete his journey.
9. Baboons were once trained by Egyptians to wait on tables.
10. Of 92 counties in Indiana, only 5 observe daylight savings time.
11. The biggest pig in recorded history weighed almost one ton.
12. The standard Chinese typewriter has 1,500 characters.
13. Canada has the longest coastline of any country in the world.
14. Of all the trees in Australia, 75% are eucalyptus.
15. Storm clouds hold about 6 trillion raindrops.
16. “O” is the oldest letter of the alphabet, dating back to 3000 B.C.
17. The amount of concrete used in the Hover Dam could build a highway from New York to California.
18. The first typewriter was called the “literary piano”.
19. Among North Atlantic lobsters, 1 in 5,000 is born bright blue.
20. Farmington, Maine, celebrates Chester Greenwood Day to honor the inventor of earmuffs.
21. Your breathing rate increases when you start to type.
22. Detroit has the greatest number of registered bowlers in the U.S.
23. There are more saunas than cars in Finland.
24. New York City’s public schools students represent about 188 different countries.
25. Underwater hockey is played with a 3-pound puck.
