* 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.