~ Antarctica has an area code. It is 672.
~ There is more than a quarter pound of salt in every gallon of sea water.
~ In the early 1960’s, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
~ It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
~ More boys than girls are born during the day; more girls are born at night.
~ Natural gas has no smell. The odor is artificially added so that people will be able to identify leaks and take measures to stop them.
~ The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.
~ A cow drinks about a bathtub full of water every day.
~ A pipe 2 feet in diameter will allow four times more fluid to pass through it than a pipe 1 foot in diameter.
~ Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
~ Americans buy about five million things that are shaped like Mickey Mouse, or have a picture of Mickey Mouse on them in the course of a day.
~ The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
~ There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
~ Saturn’s rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
