1/99 - DID YOU KNOW?

The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel it burns.
Americans watch 250 billion hours of TV per year. The value of that time at minimum wage is $1,250,000,000,000,000 (that's trillions!)
The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave it to Beaver."
The Eisenhower Interstate System requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war and other emergencies.
The cooling capacity of the air conditioning system in the Rolls Royce Silver Spirit is equivalent to that of 30 domestic refrigerators.
The largest known kidney stone weighed over 3.5 pounds.
The song of the field cricket is temperature dependent: the tone and tempo drops with a drop in temperature. If you count the number of chirps in 13 seconds, then add 40 you will have the approximate temperature in degrees Fahrenheit.