· A violin is made of seventy pieces of wood.

· Glass takes one million years to decompose.

· The temperature at the sun’s surface is ten times cooler than a bolt of lightning.

· Half of all newspapers printed in the entire world are published in the US and Canada.

· Four million phone solicitation calls are made in the US daily.

· Breaking glass cracks faster than 3,000 miles per hour.

· Animal crackers have more than eighteen different shapes.

· In a deck of playing cards, the king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

By Mary M. Alward