Odd Fun Facts

The smallest bird in the world is the bee hummingbird. The bird is 2.24 inches long

The word "toy" comes from an old English word that means "tool."

Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years. Average age ofthe Rolling Stones: 50.6.

Annually Americans eat 45 million turkeys at Thanksgiving

The Sears Tower located in Chicago, Illinois is made up 76,000 tons of steel

The youngest pope was 11 years old

During World War II, Kit Kat was unavailable due to milk shortages, so the chocolate bar was made without milk

A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere

The first automobile racetrack in America was the 'Indianapolis Motor Speedway,' which had 3 million cobblestones.

Five thousandths of a millimeter is the tolerance of accuracy at the LEGO mould factories

Baseball was the first sport to be pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated

There are 50% more males that are left handed compared to females

The first formal rules for playing the sport of baseball required the winning team to score 21 runs

In 2002, the most popular boat name in the U.S. was Liberty

95% of the entire lemon crop produced in the U.S. is from California and Arizona

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure

Teenage cosmetic surgeries nearly doubled in the USA between 1996 and 1998

500,000 tons of dog excrement are dumped annually on the streets of Paris

In 1999, a three headed turtle was discovered by Lin Chi-Fa in his pond in Southern Taiwan

The White House has a movie theater, swimming pool, bowling lane, jogging track, and a tennis court