Fastfacts


Arizona Daily Wildcat
Thursday, January 22, 2004

Things you always never wanted to know

  • Ostriches are the fastest animals on two legs, and can maintain a speed of 45 mph for 30 minutes.

  • More than 30 people die in elevator-related accidents each year in the United States.

  • On Oct. 17, 1814, a ruptured brewery tank in London spilled 3,500 barrels of beer, causing a flood that demolished two houses and drowned nine people.

  • There are 22 bones in the human head.

  • 365 different languages are spoken in Indonesia.

  • A shot of espresso has less caffeine than a cup of coffee.

  • There are 92 known cases of nuclear warheads lost at sea.

  • About 800 movies are produced in India annually, about twice the number of movies coming out of Hollywood.

  • If you hit a diamond with a hammer, the hammer will shatter.

  • In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips lasting less than 50 minutes.

  • There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S. than there are living flamingos.

  • Sometime in 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."

  • "Auld Lang Syne" roughly translated means "days now in the past."