Pride of Place

In a film’s opening credits, the director always comes last.

Wired Finns

The world’s top 10 consumers of coffee per capita per year, as of 2003:

The average American consumes 4.2 kilograms — more than 9 pounds — of coffee each year.

“The span of a man’s outstretched arms is equal to his height.” — Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks

Fat content, in grams, of Big Macs around the world:

Google’s 2004 IPO announced it intended to raise $2,718,281,828.

That’s e to 9 decimal places.

Elvis Presley had an eighth-degree black belt in karate.

Each year, the moon moves 3.82 centimeters farther from Earth.

Honolulu is the world’s most remote major city.

It’s 2,300 miles from any settlement of more than 50,000 people.

Charlie Brown’s baseball team has a win-loss record of 2-930.

Step off Canada’s Mount Thor and you’ll fall 4,100 feet — more than three-quarters of a mile — straight down.

It’s the world’s largest vertical drop.