Cool Facts

It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.

In 2001, the five most valuable brand names in order were Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, and Nokia.

It cost the soft drink industry $100 million a year for thefts committed involving vending machines.

Ray Kroc bought McDonalds for $2.7 million in 1961 from the McDonald brothers.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

Bill Bowerman, the co-founder of the shoe company Nike, got his first shoe idea after staring at a waffle iron. This gave him the idea of using squared spikes to make the shoes lighter.

Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.

In 1897, Bayer, who is the makers of Aspirin, once marketed the drug heroin.

The United States and Canada are the world's largest producers of paper and paper products.

Astronauts get taller when they are in space.

There are over one hundred billion galaxies with each galaxy having billions of stars.

There is an area located off the south-eastern Atlantic coast of the United States called the "Bermuda Triangle." It is known for a high rate of unexplained losses of ships, small boats, and aircraft, which has led some people to believe that this triangle has supernatural powers.

India used to be the richest country in the world until the British invasion in the early 17th Century.

The sun shrinks five feet every hour.

In the dry valleys region of Antarctica, it has not rained in 2 million years according to scientists.

Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents.

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis invented a special diaper for babies that has a pocket.

In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.

A washroom that was built by Lam Sai-wing is the world's most expensive washroom. He built the washroom for his shop and everything in the washroom is made out of gold and jewels. It cost $3.5 million to build.

The U.S. army packs Tabasco pepper sauce in every ration kit that they give to soldiers.

An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

Doctors in Canada use an adhesive similar to Krazy Glue instead of stitches, lowering the possibility of bacterial infection and minimizing scarring.

The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.

Teflon is the most slippery substance in the world.

Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam.

93% of all greeting cards are purchased by women.

A person uses, approximately, fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.

Post-It Notes, which are adhesive notes, were invented while looking for a way to improve the acrylate adhesive found in tapes.