No network footage exists of Super Bowl I. It was taped over, supposedly for a soap opera.
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Catatumbo lightning storm of Venezuela: For between 200 and 300 days a year, the storm produces an average of 28 strikes of lightning per minute for up to 10 hours at a time, sometimes unleashing up to 3,600 bolts of lightning per hour, or roughly one per second during particularly explosive displays, culminating in upwards of 40,000 lightning strikes a night. It’s lightning, unequaled in strength, can be seen from 250 miles away and was used as a navigational beacon by colonial sailors.
"The Mouse Trap," by Agatha Christie is the longest running play in history.
The largest pizza has a total surface area of 1,261.65 m² (13,580.28 ft²) and was prepared by Dovilio Nardi, Andrea Mannocchi, Marco Nardi, Matteo Nardi and Matteo Giannotte (all Italy) from NIPfood at Fiera Roma, in Rome, Italy, on 13 December 2012.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
Although it may seem odd, it will take the average person four times as long to do a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle as it will to do a 500 piece jigsaw. This is because each time you double the number of pieces you quadruple the difficulty. Before you start a 4,000 piece jigsaw, bear in mind that it will take you SIXTY FOUR times longer to complete it than it takes you to complete a 500 piece one!
All the proceeds earned from James M. Barrie's book "Peter Pan" were bequeathed to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for the Sick Children in London.
In terms of nutrition, what we talk of as “calories” are really kilocalories. One kiliocalorie is enough energy to raise the temperature of a kilogram of water by 1°C.
Barbara Bush's book about her English Springer Spaniel, Millie's book, was on the bestseller list for 29 weeks. Millie was the most popular "First Dog" in history.
Disneyland owns about 200 catscats, which are released every night to hunt mice.
The words "TARDIS" and "Dalek" from the show Doctor Who became so familiar to British audiences that they were added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Barbara Cartland is the world's top-selling author with over 500 million copies sold.
When Einstein was told of the publication of a book entitled, ‘100 Authors Against Einstein’, he replied: “Why one hundred? If I were wrong, one would have been enough.”
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