Amazing Facts - 31

1. Actor John Ritter was the voice of Clifford, from "Clifford The Big Red Dog."

2. Chocolate accounts for less than two percent of the fat in the American diet

3. The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella."

4. The accent that Mike Myers used for the character Shrek came from the accent that his mother would use when she was telling him bedtime stories when he was a child

5. In the Netherlands, there are special traffic lanes for bicycles. There are approximately 17,000 kms of cycle lanes with special bicycle traffic lights.

6. It was believed by Ancient Hindus that the world was a sphere and rested on the back of four elephants, which stood on a turtle

7. Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic

8. Every year, more than one million miles of Twizzlers licorice is made

9. A penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hour

10. The word Thailand means "land of the free."

11. A rose imprint that was fossilized in a slate was discovered in Florisant, Colorado, which is said to be thirty-five million years old

12. U.S. bills are 2.61 inches wide, 6.14 inches long, and are .0043 inches thick and weigh 1 gram

13. The highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere is Mount Aconcagua in Argentina. It rises 22,834 feet above sea level

14. The Barn Owls hearing is so highly developed that they can hunt for their prey in total darkness

15. The average number of bridesmaids at a wedding is four

16.Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000

17. In 1876, Maria Spelterina was the first woman to ever cross Niagara Falls on a high wire