Nope, it's Las Vegas. While the nation holds a growth rate of 13%, Vegas checked in at a whopping 84%. (Sidenote: With only about 4 inches of rain a year, it's likely that the city will face major water issues in the years to come.)

Each month, HBO offers more than 90 theatrical motion pictures.

• China has an economy growing at a rate 3 times faster than the US
• China holds 1/5 of the world's population
• China has a 100 cities with population greater than 1 million, compared to 9 cities in the US
• China consumes 33% of the world's iron ore and 40% of the concrete
• Largest manufacturer of the world's textiles, toys, consumer electronics, appliance goods

95% of these bills replace worn out or damaged currency already in circulation.

A cube of it about 2.5 inches on edge can be beaten out to cover an entire football field.

Although the contagious nature of yawning is well established, we know less about why this is so. Researchers are currently giving the topic some serious attention. One theory suggests it's a holdover from a period in evolutionary history when yawning served to coordinate the social behavior of a group of animals. A recent study postulates that contagious yawning could be part of the "neural network involved in empathy."

Don't believe it? Try the Yawn Challenge!

The average lightning flash would power a 100 watt bulb for 3 months.

One lightning casualty occurred for every 86,000 flashes in the United States. There are 20 million flashes in the US per year.

The company was created by merging the companies of Gottlieb Daimler, inventor of the gasoline internal combustion engine in 1883, and Carl Benz, inventor of the first gasoline-powered motor vehicle. In 1900, they designed a new car for Emil Jellinek, consul general of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Daimler named the new car "Mercedes" in honor of Jellinek's daughter, Mercedes. Ever since then, they have been known as Mercedes-Benz.

It's now a $4 billion/year industry (11 billion transactions/year) -- just from those pesky $1.50 charges at ATMs, etc.

Harald Bluetooth was king of Denmark in the late 900s. He managed to unite Denmark and part of Norway into a single kingdom then introduced Christianity into Denmark. Choosing this name for the standard indicates how important companies from the Baltic region (nations including Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland) are to the communications industry, even if it says little about the way the technology works.

M*A*S*H stands for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital

The MASH Series Finale in 1983 was the highest rated TV show ever - 50.15 million homes.

By kindergarten, 32% have used the Internet, typically under adult supervision!

Earth's atmosphere has no sharp boundary or upper edge. But 99% of it does lie below about 30 kilometers (19 miles). Air pressure and density continue to decrease as altitude increases and the atmosphere dwindles into the near vacuum of space.

The lowest satellite orbit is about 160 kilometers (100 miles) up. At this altitude, there is virtually no drag from air molecules to slow the satellite. In order for a satellite to remain over the same part of the earth (like a weather or TV satellite), it needs to be in a geostationary orbit (22,240 miles above the earth!)

A "barrel" is 42 gallons of crude oil (at over $50/barrel these days). These 42 gallons of crude oil yield:

• 19.7 gallons of gasoline for cars
• 10 gallons of diesel fuel
• 4 gallons of jet fuel
• 11 gallons of other products

On children's cereal boxes, the animated characters eyes always look downwards. This allows children (shorter than adults) walking through the aisles of the grocery stores to make eye contact with the cereal character (and want to buy it).

See Lucky Charms, Trix, Froot Loops, Fruity Pebbles, and even Honey Nut Cheerios.

The original Thugs were bands of roving criminals in India who strangled and robbed travellers. Originally these gangs committed murder following precise religious rites to honor Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction.

The heart of Google's search technology is PigeonRank. Building upon the breakthrough work of B. F. Skinner, Google founders Page and Brin reasoned that low cost pigeon clusters (PCs) could be used to compute the relative value of web pages faster than human editors or machine-based algorithms. (Yes this is a joke from google)

Most dolphins have a brain roughly equal in weight to an average human brain. It is estimated that they have the intelligence of a two-year old human.

With $3.2B in sales, Google is now worth $80B, ahead of media giant Time Warner at $78B (with $42B of sales).

Roosevelt, 42 years and 322 days at swearing in, took over the presidential office upon the assassination of WIlliam McKinley in 1901. Kennedy was already 43 years and 236 days when he began his term.

The increase is partly due to the "echo" of the Baby Boom (the surge in births following the second World War), where those babies born after 1945 grew up and had kids of their own.

Camel brand cigarrettes have a picture of a camel on the box.

If you look closely, you can see a "happy" man in sillouhette inside the camel facing the opposite direction.

Crazy.

Mumbai, India is the 2nd largest city in the world - 23 million residents (larger than all of Australia).

A sidenote: a new Walgreens store opens every 19 hours -- and there are 4,798 so far.

However, in discus throwing, the advantage comes when there is a head wind. Throwing a a discus into the wind can allow it to travel more than 25 feet farther than if it is thrown in the same direction as the wind.

The lift from the pressure differences over and under the disc (just like a plane) are more significant than the drag forces the disc incurs.