Hmmm…the News Column

Weird But True

1. The Earth traveled more than 5,000 miles in the past 5 minutes.
2. You are made up of about 10 trillion cells.
3. There can be about as many insects in one square mile as there are people on the entire planet.
4. The tallest volcano on mars is about 17 miles high. That's 61 times taller than the 110-story Sears tower in Chicago, Illinois.
5. The brightest light on a hotel is in Las Vegas, Nevada, and can be seen from airplanes 250 miles away.
6. Studies show that when evenly matched teams compete, the team wearing RED has a better chance of winning.
7. The world's first handheld cell phone cost $3,995.
8. A snail would take at least 100hours to crawl one mile nonstop.
9. A San Francisco Man used 10,000 Toothpicks to build a four-foot-long remote-control boat.