The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.
More than 150 ethnic groups exist in Cameroon.
In 1950, at the Las Vegas Desert Inn, an anonymous sailor made 27 straight passes (wins) with the dice at craps. The odds against such a feat are 12,467,890 to 1. The dice today are enshrined in the hotel on a velvet pillow under glass.
The average house wife walks 10 miles a day around the house doing her chores. In addition, she walks nearly 4 miles and spends 25 hours a year making beds.
More than 2.2 million guests visited Dollywood in 1998, making the park the most visited attraction in the state of Tennessee after the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Tourists' interest in this Pigeon Forge entertainment park can be attributed to several factors, the main of which is its famous namesake – country entertainer Dolly Parton. Her “Rags to Riches Museum” and a replica of her childhood home are consistently cited as favorite attractions by park visitors.
In 1965, a collection of eight bottles of Chateau Lafite Rothschild was sold at auction of $2,200.
The average life expectancy of a toilet is 50 years.
More than 260,000 people are buried at Arlington Cemetery. Arlington National Cemetery conducts approximately 5,400 burials each year. Funerals, including interments and inurnments, average 20 a day. Arlington National Cemetery has the second-largest number of people buried of any national cemetery in the United States. The largest of the 130 national cemeteries is the Calverton National Cemetery, on Long Island, near Farmingdale, New York. That cemetery conducts more than 7,000 burials each year.
In 1971, at Memorial Hospital in New York City, a woman weighting less than 100 pounds ran a fever of 114 degrees--and survived without brain damage or physiological after effects.
The average medium size piano has about 230 strings, each string having about 165 pounds of tension, with the combined pull of all strings equaling approximately 18 tons.
In 1975, a birdhouse costing $10,000 was built in Quebec by the city fathers.
The average pool cue is 57 inches long.
More than 50 percent of the people who are bitten by venomous snakes in the United States and who go untreated still survive.
In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50-pound rock. the ceremony was witnessed by more than twenty people.
The bandaging of a mummy often took from 6 to 8 months. It required a collection of special tools, including a long metal hook that was used to draw the dead person's brains out through his nose.
More than 7,000 magnets are on display at the Guinness World of Records Museum and Gift Shop, located on the Las Vegas Strip. The exhibit is a portion of the more than 26,000-magnet collection of Louise J. Greenfarb, dubbed “The Magnet Lady,” whose accumulation was designated by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's “Largest Refrigerator Magnet” collection.
In 1984 the state of New York became the last of the United States to put photographs on drivers' licenses.
Moses was 120 years old when he died, according to the Bible (Deuteronomy 34:7)
In 1986, a guard in an armored car was killed when $50,000 worth of quarters fell on him.
In 340 B.C., Aristotle observed that dolphins gave birth to live young that were attached ot their mothers by umbilical cords. For this reason, he considered dolphins and related creatures to be mammals. Biologists agreed with him - twenty-four centuries later.
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