Which two points in the contiguous United States are farthest apart?
Cape Flattery, Washington, and a point on the Florida coast south of Miami.
They are 2,835 miles apart.
We drink about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
Most men’s bodies are composed of about 40 percent muscle. Women’s bodies are 30 percent muscle.
There are about 6,000 to 10,000 species of “true” grasses, members of the family Poaceae. They are the most widespread and numerous of all the flowering plants.
A human fetus develops fingerprints at the age of three months.
According to 1980 census findings, citizens in the 55 64 age group had a turnout of 71.3 percent. Close behind were those in the 65-to-74 age group, with 69.3 percent. Those 18 and 19 brought up the rear with a 34.2 percent showing.
Hailstones begin as frozen raindrops or pellets of snow in a thunderstorm cloud. These “hail embryos” are carried by updrafts to a part of the storm where droplets of water exist in a supercooled state (that is, in liquid form at temperatures below freezing). These supercooled droplets freeze into ice when they strike the surface…