Daily Facts

Most collect calls are made on father`s day.

Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.

In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.

Jefferson invented the dumbwaiter, the monetary system, and the folding attic ladder.

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

India has a Bill of Rights for cows.

"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.

John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!

On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1"encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper...

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state`s third largest city.

The state of Florida is bigger than England!

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!

In Miconesia, coins are 12 feet across.