Did You Know?

A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie. 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. (That's one every two hours.) 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary are misspelled. A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints. A duck's quack doesn't echo. A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though! A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans. According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying. Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard. Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles. back