Facts

 

* 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with
both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.

* 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

* 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

* 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.

* 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.

* 99% of the solar system's mass is concentrated in the sun.

* A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.

* A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head.

* A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.

* A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

* A fierce gust of wind blew 45-year-old Vittorio Luise's car into a river near Naples, Italy, in 1983. He managed to break a window, climb out and swim to shore-where a tree blew over and killed him.

* A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes at least twenty
minutes to stop.

* A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.

* A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realises it's there, though!

* A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

* A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.

* A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!

* A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

* A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!

* According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offence. Offenders could be hanged for trying.

* Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at
Harvard.

* Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.