Miscellaneous
*On average, 28 American mail carriers are bit by dogs every day.

*It snowed in the Sahara Desert on February 18, 1979.

*Aesop was only 3 1/2 feet tall.

*Eskimos of the Arctic circle use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.

*Light can travel around the earth 7 times in 1 second.

*Even though footballs are called "pigskins", they are now made of cow hide.

*The canopy of the Amazon rainforest is so thick, that only 1% of all the sunlight reaches the ground.

*Humans are the only creatures that cry.

*Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World: 70.

*America once issued a 5-cent bill.

*The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F".

*In one day, bamboo can grow up to 3 feet.

*Andrew Jackson was the only president who believed that the world was flat.

*Every queen ever named Jane has either been murdered, imprisoned, gone mad, died young, or been dethroned.

*Before 1863, Postal Service in the U.S. was free.

*If a human moved at a snail's pace, it would take them a minute to move 5 inches.

*By law, no living person can be portrayed on a money bill of United States.

*The yo-yo originated in the Phillipines where it was used as a weapon for hunting.

*The ampersand (&) was once a letter in the English alphabet.

*The 1st TV Guide was priced at $0.15 (15¢).

*You consume one-tenth (1/10) of a calorie every time you lick a stamp.

*When George Washington was elected president, there was a king in France, a czarina in Russia an emperor in China, and a shogun in Japan. Only the office of president remains.

*There is no living descendant of William Shakespeare.

*There are more than 70 active volcanoes under the ocean.

*The price of a 1st-class ticket on the Titanic was $3,100.

*The price of a 3rd-class ticket on the Titanic was $32.

*Peppermint was the 1st Lifesaver flavor.

*The White House was painted grey until 1818.

*No one knows where Mozart is buried.

*None of the 1st 15 Presidents of the U.S. sported a beard.

*Disney's "Goofy" was once known as "Dippy the Goof".

*Australia was the first country to use postcards.

*In 1883, Arthur Pepper named his daughter . . . Anna Bertha Cecilia Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude Hypatia Inez Jane Kate Louisa Maud Nora Ophelia Quince Rebecca Sarah Teresa Ulysses Venus Winifred Xenophon Yetty Zeus Pepper (1 name for every letter in the alphabet with P for Pepper displaced to the end).

*All of the dalmations in Disney's 101 Dalmations have the same number of spots (although they are situated in differently).

*When you add up the number of letters in the names of the playing cards- ace (3), two (3), three (5), four (4), five (4), six (3), seven (5), eight (5), nine (4), ten (3), jack (4), queen (5), and king (4), the total comes to 52 - the precise number of cards in a deck.

*From 1849-1901, every American president had an "A" in his 1st or last name.