Gene Sarazen, a golfer from several generations ago, set the record for the fastest golf drive: 120 mph.
During the heating months of winter, the relative humidity of the average American home is 13% nearly twice as dry as the Sahara Desert.
In Japan no private citizen can buy a handgun legally.
To pass U.S. Army basic training young female recruits must do 17 pushups in two minutes. Males must do 40 pushups in two minutes
During World War I, the punishment for homosexuality in the French army was execution.
Americans spend more than $630 million a year on golf balls.
Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
The earth rotates on its axis more slowly in March than in September.
