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. Elvis bought his mansion Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1957 for $100,000 (£36,000). At age 10, Elvis placed fifth singing "Old Shep" at a children's talent show, thereby surpassing Michael Jordan, who got cut from one of his first basketball teams. He was drafted into the US army on December 19, 1957, earning $78 a month and unable to get access to his monthly music income of $400,000. Elvis had a pet chimpanzee called Scatter which liked to look up women’s skirts. His favourite aftershave to impress the ladies was Brut. In 1954, Elvis auditioned for a gospel quartet named the Songfellows.  They said no. Elvis recorded more than 600 songs, but did not write any of them.     The first Grammy Award Elvis is for the 1967 Gospel release, “How Great Thou Art.” The Cleveland Browns was Elvis’ favorite football team. Elvis' famous black hair was dyed - his natural color was brown. He was distantly related to former U.S. Presidents Abraham Lin...

The Royal Gorge Bridge looms 1,053 feet above the Arkansas River, making it the highest suspension bridge in the world. The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad run under the Royal Gorge Bridge, along the banks of the Royal Gorge, which is a 10-mile canyon with a 50 feet wide base and a depth of almost 1200 feet. The Royal Gorge Bridge is 880 feet high and 18 feet wide. It has a wooden walkway consisting of over 1000 planks. The Colorado Royal Gorge Bridge is suspended from towers that are 150 feet high. In November of 1929, the Royal Gorge Bridge was constructed as a one-lane toll bridge. The bridge is also listed on the Register of National Historic Places. The total cost to build the bridge was $350,000. The price tag to build it today would be roughly $15 million dollars. Some other interesting facts about the bridge: There are 2,100 strands of No. 9 galvanized wire in each cable. The walkway is made of 1,292 planks of deck; about 250 are replaced annually. The bridg...

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. New York is the 27th-most extensive, the 3rd-most populous, and the 7th-most densely populated of the 50 United States. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the west and north, and Quebec to the north. The state of New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City. Fun Facts About New York State: Sam Schapiro began the Kosher wine industry on New York's Lower East side with their famous extra heavy original concord wine in 1899. Dairying is New York's most important farming activity with over 18,000 cattle and or calves farms. New York City has 722 miles of subway track. The first presentation of 3D films before a paying audience...

Did You Know?... 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30. An average person laughs about 15 times a day. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles. Feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than a pint of sweat a day. Sneezes regularly exceed 100 mph, while coughs clock in at about 60 mph. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

A Brief History of Fast Food: Most citizenries consider the McDonald brothers of Golden State led off the fast-food furor in United States, but actually, it was the White Castle burger chain that really led off fast food history in USA. J. Walter Anderson opened the 1st White Castle in 1916 in Wichita, Kansas, and citizenries cared the inexpensive beefburgers, fries, and colas he provided. Yet, fast-food truly did not go mutual in US until after World War 2, when Americans for the first time started to fall in love with their motorcars, and owned leisure and more money to drop on eating out. Some interesting Fast Food Facts: The first located printed reference to hamburgers appeared in the Los Angeles Times in 1894. Every month, approximately nine out of 10 American children visit a McDonald's restaurant. French fries are the single most popular fast food in America. In 1970, french fries surpassed regular potato sales in the United States. In 2004, America...

The average life expectancy of an ant is 45-60 days. The ant has two eyes, each eye is made of many smaller eyes. Ants are capable of carrying objects 50 times their own body weight with their mandibles. The Army Ant (Ecitron Burchelli) of South America, can have as many as 700,000 members in its colony. Ants lived alongside the dinosaurs. Ants belong to the order "Hymenoptera" and are said to be closely related to sphecid wasps. The largest ant ever discovered was actually a fossilized specimen belonging to Titanomyrma giganteum, was about 2.4 inches long and had a wingspan of almost six inches. An ant’s waist has 1 or 2 movable parts providing great flexibility. There are 22,000 different species of ant. The queen ant lays all the eggs in the anthill. An ant brain has about 250,000 brain cells. A human brain has 10,000 million so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human.

Just a single hive contains approximately 40-45,000 bees! Bees fly an average of 13-15 mph. About 8 pounds of honey is eaten by bees to produce 1 pound of beeswax. The honey bee's wings stroke 11,400 times per minute, thus making their distinctive buzz. A honey bee visits 50 to 100 flowers during a collection trip. It takes one ounce of honey to fuel a bee’s flight around the world. The honey bee has been around for 30 million years. Bees collect 66 lbs of pollen per year, per hive. Pollen is the male germ cells produced by all flowering plants for fertilization and plant embryo formation. Honeybees are not native to the USA. They are European in origin, and were brought to North America by the early settlers. The queen bee can live for several years. Worker bees live for 6 weeks during the busy summer, and for 4-9 months during the winter months. The practice of honey collection and beekeeping dates back to the stone-age, as evidenced by cave paintings.