- Contrary to popular belief, lightning travels from the ground
upwards not from the sky downwards.
-The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of
only 5 megabytes
- Sheep outnumber humans in New Zealand 15 to 1.
- Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
- Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which
guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.
- Muhammad is the most common name in the world.
- In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the
world's nuclear weapons combined!
- Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than
women.
- More boys than girls are born during the day; more girls are born
at night.
- In San Salvador, drunk drivers can be punished by death before a
firing squad.
- Just one in three consumers pays off his or her credit card bill
every month
- TIME Magazines Man of the Year in 1938 was Adolf Hitler.
- Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and
swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.
- 9 out of 10 lightning strike victims survive!
- The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30
ft.
- Tasmania is said to have the cleanest air in the world.
