AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING XCIX

1. The bumblebee bat is the world's smallest mammal - weighing in at 2 grams, about the weight of  two small paper clips. The world's largest mammal is the blue whale - weighing a staggering 200,000 to 300,000 pounds. It's heart is the size of a small car, and it can be 90-100 feet long - the length of three long school buses.

2. In the century before the Pilgrims' arrival in the New World (1520-1620), English gained 10,000 words - about half of them sufficiently useful to still be with us today. Shakespeare has been credited with about 2,000 of them.

3. In 1932, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

4. Rayon is made from wood pulp.

5. Until its break-up in 1991, the USSR covered 1/6 of the earth's ground surface.

6. In aviation slang, George is the name for auto-pilot.

7. The best-selling jazz album of all time was Kind of Blue by Miles Davis.

8. The shortest word containing the letters, A,B,C,D,E,F is FEEDBACK.

9. The Han Chinese people are the largest ethnic group on earth - making up 18% of the global population.