The Kewlest Facts
The Kewlest Facts
- "Hysterical" is derived from the Greek word hyster meaning "uterus"
- Michael Sangster, who played in the 1960s, had tennis' fastest serve, once clocked at 154 mph
- Most toilets flush in the key of E flat
- If a man could ran as fast for his size as an ant can he could run as fast as a racehorse
- Honey is used as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures
- The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate
- It takes six hours to boil and ostrich egg
- Despite the fact that 77 percent of Americans go to the grocery store with a list, it's estimated that half of everything bought there is bought on impulse
- At Disneyland they have hundreds of wild domesticated cats running around the park. They never come out during the day because there's too many people, but the reason they're there is to catch the mice
- Henry Waterman, of New York, invented the elevator in 1850. He intended it to transport barrels of flour
- No one knows where Mozart is buried
- France had the first supermarket in the world. It was started by relatives of the people who started the Texas Big Bear supermarket chain
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