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Post by Paul Hogan on Jul 12, 2007 3:18:18 GMT -5
Pluto is the only planet in our solar system that has not been visited by a spacecraft.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Jul 12, 2007 16:35:37 GMT -5
The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system in India, employing over 1.6 million people.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Jul 12, 2007 16:51:23 GMT -5
There was only one pointer, the hour hand, on the first clocks made in the fourteenth century. The minute and seconds hands were added in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Jul 13, 2007 17:17:41 GMT -5
Thomas Watson, who was the chairman of IBM in 1943 predicted that their would probably only be a world market for five computers.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Jul 14, 2007 19:19:18 GMT -5
Seven asteroids were especially named for the Challenger astronauts who were killed in the 1986 failed launch of the space shuttle.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Jul 14, 2007 19:40:29 GMT -5
A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Jul 15, 2007 17:15:06 GMT -5
Club Direct, a travel insurance company in Britain, provides insurance plans for protection from falling coconuts.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Jul 15, 2007 17:43:46 GMT -5
The largest hamburger cooked in the world weighed in at 6,040 pounds.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Jul 16, 2007 16:35:54 GMT -5
In Miami, Florida, roosting vultures have taken to snatching poodles from rooftop patios.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Jul 16, 2007 16:52:50 GMT -5
The Sears Tower located in Chicago, Illinois is made up 76,000 tons of steel.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Jul 17, 2007 18:57:46 GMT -5
Humpback whales are capable of living up to 95 years.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Jul 17, 2007 18:58:27 GMT -5
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Jul 18, 2007 22:35:35 GMT -5
The record for the longest Monopoly game played in a bathtub is ninety-nine hours.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Jul 19, 2007 19:02:19 GMT -5
About two hundred years before the birth of Christ, the Druids used mistletoe to celebrate that winter was approaching.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Jul 19, 2007 19:25:52 GMT -5
In 1657, the first chocolate house was opened in London, England. The cost of chocolate was about 13 shillings per pound and was a drink that only the elite enjoyed.
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