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1001/ There are 92 known cases
of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
1002/ One in every ten people
in the world live on an island.
1003/ The petals of the world's
largest flower are 1.5 feet long.
1004/ When King James VI of
Scotland ascended to the English throne, thereby becoming
James I of England, the national flags of England and Scotland
on land continued to be, respectively, the red St George's
cross and the white St Andrew's cross. Confusion arose, however,
as to what flag would be appropriate at sea. On 12 April 1606
a proclamation was issued: 'All our subjects in this our isle
and kingdom of Great Britain and the members thereof, shall
bear in their main top the red cross commonly called St George's
Cross and the white cross commonly called St. Andrew's Cross
joined.
1005/ The study of ants is
called Myrmecology.
1006/ Eating with a fork was
once considered scandalous.
1007/ The first US 'Labor
Day' was celebrated on a Tuesday in 1882.
1008/ Napoleon died of arsenic
poisoning.
1009/ Gore-Tex is made with
Teflon.
1010/ There are two radios
for every man, woman, and child in the United States.
1011/ In 1970 only 5% of the
American population lived in cities.
1012/ The average person receives
eight birthday cards annually.
1013/ Henri Nestle was originally
a baby food manufacturer. His work and research with condensed
milk aided Daniel Peter in inventing a method to successfully
combine chocolate and milk in a solid form - the first milk
chocolate - in 1875.
1014/ Antarctica is 98 percent
ice and 2 percent barren rock. The average thickness of the
ice sheet is 7,200 feet. This amounts to 90 percent of all
the ice and 70 percent of all the fresh water in the world.
If the ice cap were to melt, the sea level would rise by an
average of 230 feet.
1015/ Antarctica is the only
continent without reptiles or snakes.
1016/ Finland has the greatest
number of islands in the world: 179,584.
1017/ The national anthem
of Grenada, words written by Irva Merle Baptiste and music
by Louis Arnold Masanto, was adopted on February 7th 1974.
However, Grenada's anthem has no title.
1018/ The odd zigzag in the
North Carolina/South Carolina state line, just south of Charlotte,
resulted when boundary commissioners altered the line in 1772
to avoid splitting the Catawba Indians between the two British
Colonies.
1019/ A chest x-ray is comprised
of 90,000 to 130,000 electron volts.
1020/ A chip of silicon a
quarter inch square has the capacity of the original 1949
ENIAC computer, which occupied a full city block.
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