1. A snail would take about 220 hours to crawl one mile non-stop.
2. There can be about as many insects in one square mile as there are people on the entire planet.
3. The earth traveled more than five thousand miles in the past five minutes.
4. You are made up of about ten trillion cells.
5. The tallest volcano on Mars is about 17 miles high. That's 61 times taller than the 110 story Sears Tower in Chicago, Illinois.
6. The oldest continuously standing tree on Earth is nearly five thousand years old - about the same age as the pyramids in Egypt.
7. The brightest light on a hotel is in Las Vegas, Nevada and can be seen from airplanes 250 miles away.
8. A San Francisco man used 10,000 toothpicks to build a four foot long remote controlled boat.
9. The world's first hand held cell phone cost $3,995.
10. Studies show that when evenly matched teams compete the team wearing red has a better chance of winning.
WOMAN GROWS BEARD
What's on Vivian Wheeler's face? You might think it's pretty make up, but it's actually a beard. She is proud of what makes her different. She started shaving her face when she was 7 years old but more than 15 years ago decided to let the beard grow. The longest strand was 11 inches long when last measured.
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