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At 29,029 feet Mount Everest is the highest mountain but the tallest from bottom to top is Mauna Kea rising from the sea, it is 33,465 feet, about three-quarters a mile taller than Everest.

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What is the most dangerous animal? Half the human beings who have ever died, estimated at 45 billion people, have been killed by female mosquitos. Even today, they kill one person every twelve seconds. carrying

more than one hundred potentially fatal diseases.

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Chinese resourcefulness has given us the abacus, bells, brandy, the calendar, the compass, the crossbow, the decimal

system, drilling for oil, fireworks, the fishing reel, the flamethrower, the flush toilet, gunpowder, the helicopter, the

horse collar, the iron plow, the kite, laquer, matches . . .

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12. . . Chinese resourcefulness has given us the mechanical clock, negative numbers, paper, parachutes, porcelain, printmaking,

rudders, seismographs, silk, stirrups, the suspension bridge, the umbrella, the water pump, and the wheelbarrow.




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Alexander Graham Bell referred to himself first as a teacher of the deaf. His mother and wife were deaf and he taught the

young Helen Keller. She dedicated her autobiography to him.

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The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane

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Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it

could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

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The most expensive part of a medieval banquet was dessert. Spices and nuts were the most costly, edible imports.

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It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.

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Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

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In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress

tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight"

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It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-

law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the

honey month or what we know today as the honeymoon.

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Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet

your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.

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Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to

hide the body odor.

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Houses had thatched roofs--thick straw, piled high, with no woodunderneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm,so all the dogs, cats

and other small animals (mice rats, and bugs lived in the roof). When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof--

hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."

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The United States consumes one million dollars worth of energy every minute.

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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

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The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that she burns.

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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.

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There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.

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When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.

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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

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In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

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Montpelier, Vermont is the only USA state capital without a McDonalds.

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Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

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