Friday Facts

The results of the poll were 2 votes for candy, no votes for nature. So, as promised, here are two candy facts:

1. The biggest Gingerbread house was decorated with 4,750 pounds of icing - that's heavier than a giraffe!

2. The first candy canes were made without stripes.

3. The longest Monopoly game played in a bath tub lasted 99 hours.

4. Some diamonds are more than a billion years old.

5. A space suit weighs 280 pounds - without an astronaut in it.

6. The world's tallest waterfall, called Angel Falls, is taller than five Washington Monuments stacked up.

7. Americans eat 1.2 billion pounds of potato chips each year - more than ten times the weight of Egypt's Great Pyramid.

8. Your brain is sometimes more active when you're asleep than when you're awake.

9. Some fish can walk on land.

10. Chewing gum was banned in Singapore until 2004.

One Amazing "FEET"!

The longest chain of shoes tied together could have stretched a mile and a half if it had been laid out straight. National Geographic Kids donated 10,512 shoes to make the chain. The best part is that all those shoes were recycled and used to make two basketball courts. All those shoes were kept out of landfills and used for something useful. The shoes that were donated ranged in size from tiny baby shoes to monstrous size 20s.