Interesting Facts - Page Two


 * 1) There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.
 * 2) When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
 * 3) Russia didn't consider beer to be alcohol until 2011. It was previously classified as a soft drink.
 * 4) If a male lion takes over a pride, he executes all of the cubs.
 * 5) Forbes estimated in 2011 that Scrooge McDuck was worth $44.1 billion.
 * 6) Two-thirds of the people on Earth have never seen snow.
 * 7) In Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller Psycho, the sound effects for the famous shower scene were actually created by repeatedly stabbing a casaba melon.
 * 8) A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
 * 9) There are more vacant houses than homeless people in the Unites States.
 * 10) When St. Louis held the 1904 Summer Olympic Games, events included greased pole climbing, rock throwing and mud fighting.
 * 11) The Woolly Mammoth was around when the Egyptian Pyramids were being built.
 * 12) The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
 * 13) If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
 * 14) When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
 * 15) The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.
 * 16) A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
 * 17) The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
 * 18) FDA regulations allow 10 insects and 35 fruit fly eggs per 8 ounces of raisins.
 * 19) A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
 * 20) You are 1% shorter in the evening than in the morning.