Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
The average heart rate is 80 bpm.
Possums do not play dead.
They pass out from fear of their predators.
A Costa Rican worker that makes baseball earns $2,750 annually.
The average American pro baseball player earns $2,377,000 per year. The majority of regulation baseballs are stitched by hand.
A jiffy is an actual measure of time.
It is calculated as 1/100th of a second. This is 10 milliseconds.
Babe Ruth out-homered every American league team.
The first time that this happened was in 1927. This totaled to around 35 different pitchers that Ruth had out-homered.
Recycling glass jars save energy.
One glass jar can attain enough energy to power a television. This power can last up to three hours from one jar alone.
San Francisco’s cable cars are counted as a national monument.
They are also the only monuments that can move. They are also able to carry passengers along its tracks.
The match was invented after the lighter.
The first match was made in 1826. However, the first cigarette lighter was made in 1823.
Michael Jordan makes a lot of money from Nike.
This is more than what all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia annually make combined. This is enough money to be able to feel the entire world population a meal.
The five colors on the Olympic flag were carefully selected.
This is because at least one color on this flag can be found on any flag in any country.