According
to one study, plant and animal species are becoming extinct at the
rate of 17 per hour
Grover
Cleveland is the only United States president to have been married
in the White House
There
is a house in Rockport Massachusetts, built entirely of newspaper.
The
Paper House at Pigeon Cove, as it is called, is made of 215
thicknesses
of newspaper
The
Romans were enamored with the smell of roses. According to
historians,
Nero had pipes installed under banquet plates to allow his guests
to be
spritzed with rose scent between dinner courses
The
monarch butterfly can discern tastes 12,000 times more subtle than
those perceivable by human taste buds
The
first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby was Diane Crump on May
2, 1970
The
average American will eat 35,000 cookies during their life span
Cattle
branding was practiced 4,000 years ago. Old tomb paintings show
Egyptians branding their fat, spotted cattle
Buffalo
chicken wings were named for their city of origin in New York
state, where they were created at The Anchor Bar
The
South Pole is actually a desert environment, averaging about the
same amount of monthly rainfall as the Sahara Desert
The
rush of air produced by a cough moves at a speed approaching 600
miles per hour
