There is a regulation size half-court where employees can play basketball inside the Matterhorn at Disneyland.

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At General Motors, the cost of health care for employees now exceeds the cost of steel.

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Physicists have already performed a simple type of teleportation, transferring the quantum characteristics of one atom onto another atom at a different location.

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A Brussels Airlines flight to Vienna was aborted because the pilot was attacked in the cockpit. The attacker was a passenger’s cat, who got out of its travel bag.

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Solid structures (parking lots, roads, buildings) in the United States cover an area the size of Ohio.

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An employee of the Alabama Department of Transportation installed spyware on his boss’s computer and proved that the boss spent 10% of his time working (20% of time checking stocks and 70% of the time playing solitaire). The employee was fired, the boss kept his job.

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Each year, sixteen million gallons of oil run off pavement into streams, rivers and eventually oceans in the United States. This is more oil than was spilled by the Exxon Valdez.

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Life expectancy for Russian men has actually gone down over the past 40 years. A Russian male born today can expect to live an average 58 years.

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A chef’s hat is shaped the way it is for a reason: its shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool in a hot kitchen.

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China is the world’s largest market for BMW’s top of the line 760Li. This car sells for $200,000 in China – more than almost all people in China make in a lifetime.

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