Insulting nicknames of U.S. presidents:
Beer consumption per capita, as of 2004, in liters per year:
Darwin, Australia, has the highest beer consumption of any city in the world. The average resident there drinks 230 liters, or about 60 gallons, of beer each year.
Nobel laureates by country, as of July 2006:
Throughout his entire professional career, Andy Kaufman kept a day job busing tables at Jerry’s Famous Deli in Los Angeles.
Big Bird is 8 feet 2 inches tall.
Riding in the Tour de France is the equivalent of running a marathon almost every day for almost three weeks, plus climbing three Mount Everests. Each day, riders eat up to 10,000 calories, the equivalent of 17 Big Macs.
In April 2005, Grabowiec, a village near Torun, Poland, named one of its streets after Obi-Wan Kenobi.
No word on property values.
When Canada Post routes letters to Santa Claus, it uses the postal code “H0H 0H0”.
If you’re really dedicated, it’s possible to travel nearly 6,000 miles in a straight line within the United States.
A trip from Log Point on Elliott Key in Florida to Kure Island in Hawaii would cover 5,859 miles.
