Did You Know?

• California's Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle in 1905 when he was 11 years old.
• There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
• There are more than 900,000 known species of insects in the world.
• China's Beijing Duck Restaurant can seat 9,000 people at one time.
• The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.
• A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey.
• Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham after his editor dared him to write a book using fewer than 50 different words.
• The highest waterfall in the world, Angel Falls in Venezuela, has a total drop of 3,121 feet.
• Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
• An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
• A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.
• The plant life in the oceans make up about 85 percent of all the greenery on the Earth.