Degringolade means to fall and disintegrate
A syzygy occurs when all the planets of our Solar System line up
The Earth orbits the sun at about 18.5 miles per second
The surface area of the Earth is about 197,000,000 square miles
Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.
The 29,249th digit of pi is a seven
The most common letters in English are R S T L N E
'Able was I ere I saw Elba' is a palindrome written by Napoleon
'A man a plan a canal Panama' is also a palindrome
Mount. Olympus Mons on Mars is three times the size of Mount Everest
Li Hung-chang is the father of Chop Suey
The number one most popular cat name is kitty
The number one most popular dog name is Brandy
A golf ball has 360 dimples
The waffle was invented iron August 24, 1869
2,000 pounds of space dust and other space debris fall on the Earth every day
Each month, there is at least one report of UFOs from each province of Canada
The average person will drink 8,000 gallons of water during their lifetime.
The average housefly lives for one month
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year
To keep cool, Ostriches urinate on their legs; it then evaporates like sweat
The perfect pickle should have 7 warts per square inch
The Olympic flag pole at the Tokyo Olympics was 49 feet, 10 3/4 inches tall
5,200,000 pounds of pickles are consumed each day by Americans
1/3 of all Americans flush the toilet while still on it
There are 333 squares of toilet paper are on a roll
Penguins can jump 6 feet.
There have been about a quarter of a million Elvis sightings since his death.
Houseflies hum in the middle octave key of F
A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened
You can be fined up to $1,000 for whistling on a Sunday in Salt Lake City,Utah
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