Trivia and Amazing Facts
- According to one study, plant and animal species are becoming extinct at the rate of 17 per hour
- HOW LONG IS A COSMIC YEAR? A cosmic year is the time it takes the sun to complete one revolution around the center of the Milky Way galaxy - about 225 million earth years. The sun is between 20 and 21 cosmic years old
- There are two credit cards for every person in the United States
- HOW DID THE ICE-CREAM SUNDAE GET ITS NAME? The sundae was created in Evanston, Illinois, in the late nineteenth century to get around a Sabbath ban on selling ice-cream sodas. It was dubbed Sunday, but spelled with an "e" instead of a "y" to avoid religious objections
- Most American car horns honk in the key of F
