Facts:
In the 1985 Boise, Idaho mayoral election, there were four write-in votes for Mr. Potato Head.
Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.
A flea can jump 150 times its size. That is the same as a person able to jump up 1,000 feet in the air.
In New York City there are 6,374.6 miles of streets.
The Christmas season begins after sunset on December 24th and lasts until
January 5th. This is also known as the Twelve Days of Christmas.
The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
I n North America there are approximately 618 roller coasters.
If someone was to fly once around the surface of the moon, it would be equal to a round trip from New York to London.
The last thing Elvis Presley ate before he died was four scoops of ice cream and 6 chocolate chip cookies.
Soldiers disease is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.
A Koala Bear sleeps 22 hours of every day.
Lightning travels from the ground upwards not from the sky downwards.
All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
The highest toll paid by a ship to cross the Panama Canal was by the Crown Princess on May 2, 1993 in the amount of $141,349.97 U.S. funds.
Butterflies taste with their feet. .
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
The taser was invented by a fan of Victor Appleton's adventure novels featuring Tom Swift, sort of a techno-genius cousin of the Hardy Boys, and its name stands for "Thomas A. Swift Electric Rifle."
An average beehive has 30,000 to 60,000 bees living in it. A queen laying 1,000 to 3,000 eggs per day easily maintains this population.
Your nose and ears never stop growing.
A snail can sleep for three years.
A dragonfly flaps its wings 20 to 40 times a second, bees and houseflies 200 times, some mosquitoes 600 times, and a tiny gnat 1,000 times.
An elephant's tooth can weigh as much as 12 pounds
