Trivia

The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,0000 years. The
concrete in it will not even be fully cured for
another 500 years.

The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the
Wright Brother's first flight.

There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire
State Building.

In space, astronauts can not cry, because there is no
gravity and tears can't flow.

The microwave was invented after researchers walked
by a radar tube and the chocolate bar in his pocket
melted.

Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.

If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the
Manhattan Project, your birthplace was officially listed
as Post Office Box 1663. Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The record for the most snowfall in a single day was 78
inches on February 7, 1916 in Alaska.

The name of the asteroid that was believed to have killed
the dinosaurs was Chixalub.

Grand Rapids, Michigan was the first city in the US to
put fluoride in their water.

One square inch of skin on the human hand contains some 72
feet of nerve fiber.

The average human will walk 160 billion millimeters in a
lifetime.

The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot
repair itself.

If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will probably come up
"heads" about 4,950 times. The "heads" side of the penny
weighs more than the "tails" side.