Ten Random Facts

Soft drinks are American's favorite beverage. Water ranks Number 2, and milk is Number 3. The average American drinks about 52 gallons of soft drinks per year.
Statistics

Eastman Kodak's Brownie camera cost $1.00 when it was introduced in 1900.
Inventions

Ten percent of frequent fliers say they never check their luggage when flying.
Surveys

In central Australia, it was once the custom for balding Aranda Aborigines to wear wigs made of emu feathers.
Laws and Customs

Peter the Great of Russia was almost 7 feet tall.
People

About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.
Statistics

On a hot summer day, a large oak tree gives off approximately fifty barrels of water in the form of a fine vapor.
Environment

A “distich” is composed of two poetic lines matching both sound and sense. It is used during the Chinese New Year to express the people's wish for a peaceful and happy new year.
Holidays

Koalas and humans are the only animals with unique prints. Koala prints cannot be distinguished from human fingerprints.
Animals

As of September 1998, the highest recorded mileage for a car was 1,615,000 miles for a 1966 Volvo P-1800.
Records

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