DO YOU KNOW?
- A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
- The world’s youngest parents were age 8 and 9. They lived in China and had their child in 1910.
- Abraham Lincoln’s dog, Fido, was also assassinated.
- It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and the chocolate bar in his pocket melted.
- There are 2,000,000 millionaires in the United States.
- The United States has five percent of the world’s population, but twenty-five percent of the world’s prison population.
- It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.
- In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
- There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.