A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
140
The French named one of their aircraft carriers after Ferdinand Foch, a man who once said "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value".
10
There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
5
Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
45
There is a superhero supply store in Brooklyn with a cape fitting room that has a wind tunnel. They also sell oxygen gum, bottled chaos and have an invisibility testing center.
18
It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
-11
The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67 million.
67
Cash machines are as dirty as public toilets.
175