Interesting Facts

One cord of wood will make 12 dining room tables, 30 Boston rocking chairs, 942 one-pound books, 1200 editions of National Geographic, 4,500,000 commemorative stamps, or 7,500,000 toothpicks.

A person can live for three weeks without food, three days without water and three seconds without blood.

The Vatican was the only government in the world to officially recognise the Confederate States of America.

An average healthy adult can survive six bee stings per pound of body weight.

Since 1940 the United States dollar has lost 96.3% of its value.