AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING XX

1. Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition, has 57 pages of words starting with CO.

2. The HOI POLLOI are the common people - the masses.

3. The main function of the zebra's stripes is to deter biting insects. The stripes confuse the insects as they try to land on the zebra's skin.

4. The Big Mac sandwich had two previous names: Originally, The Aristocrat; then, The Blue Ribbon Burger. Neither name captured the intended vision of the Big Mac as the meal for the common (and hungry) man.

5. Yellowstone National Park sits atop the caldera of an active, super volcano.

6. Vanna White is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most frequent clapper.

7. There are an estimated 200 million insects for every human on earth. By number, the largest categories are 1: Beetles, 2: Flies (including mosquitoes), 3: Ants, bees, and wasps, and 4: moths and butterflies. Following man, the most dangerous animal on earth is the mosquito.