The Mount Olympus Mons on Mars is 3 times the size of Everest.
The amount of computer memory needed to run Word Perfect for WIN95, was 8 times the amount needed aboard the space shuttle.
2000lb of space dust and debris fall on Earth every day.
If done perfectly, a Rubix cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.
There are 1,575 steps to the top of the Empire State Building.
The noise a whip makes when you crack it is actually a small sonic boom, since you break the sound barrier.
Hot water is heavier than cold water.
Half of all Americans still live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
If you spelled out all the numbers, you would get to One Thousand before you came across the letter 'A'.
Virginia Woolf wrote all her books standing.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently until he was 9. His parents thought he was retarded.
Thomas Edison who invented the lightbulb, was afraid of the dark.
You can sail all the way around the world at 60 deg south.
A praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named as an 'Honorary Harlem Globetrotter.'
A foetus develops fingerprints at 18 weeks.
A fear of vegetables is Lachanophobia.
Honolulu is the only place in the US that has a royal palace.
More money is spent on gardening than any other hobby.
Baby Robins eat about 14ft of worms every day.
Most of the dust in your house is dead skin.
Of all the words in the English language, the word SET has the most definitions.
The most used letter in the English Alphabet is 'E' and the least used is 'Q'
The name for the Wizard of Oz, got its title when the creator Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z.
If you were to upturn the Millenium Dome in London. It would hold 3.8 billion pints of liquid to fill it up.
The odds of hitting a jackpot on a slot machine are 889 to 1.
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