You travel 2.5 million km (about 1.5 million miles) a day around the sun.

Australia produces around 1.3 billion liters of wine each year.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay.

It is legal so long as both parties have been registered as blood donors.

The moonwalk was not actually invented by Michael Jackson. Cab Calloway included similar movements in his performances as early as 1932. At that time, however, people called it “The Buzz”.

Ketchup leaves the bottle at a measured speed.

It leaves the bottle at a rate of 25 miles per year.

The word “gym” comes from Greek and translates to “place of the naked.”




Despite pointing this out, I had my membership revoked.

There is a town called Calama has never experienced rain.

It is found in the Atacama desert of Chile.

Only the polar bear is a true carnivore.



All other bears are omnivores, or animals that eat both plants and meat.

Lightning strikes the earth 100 times each second.

The five colours on the Olympic flag were carefully selected.

This is because at least one colour on this flag can be found on any flag in any country.

Unlike many mammals, bears can see in color.

Antares is 60,000 times larger than the sun.

Vulcan, West Virginia, lacked a road connection to the rest of West Virginia and relied on a swinging bridge across the Tug Fork to Kentucky Route 194. The bridge was too narrow for vehicular traffic and had deteriorated by the early 1970s with missing boards.

In 1974–75, the bridge had completely collapsed due to wood rot, and the mayor of Vulcan had unsuccessfully lobbied both the state and federal government to replace it. Because of a lack of action, in 1977, the self-appointed mayor of Vulcan, John Robinette, requested foreign aid from the Soviet Union and East Germany to replace the town's bridge. Soviet journalist Iona Andronov visited Vulcan on December 17, 1977, to meet with Robinette and survey the problem. Within an hour of his visit, reporters were told that the state would replace the bridge. The West Virginia Legislature provided $1.3 million in funding to replace the bridge which opened in 1980.

The Soviet Union had released a statement that they would pay for a new bridge.