Nobel laureates by country, as of July 2006:
- United States: 160
- United Kingdom: 110
- Germany: 92
- France: 44
- Switzerland: 25
- USSR and Russia: 21
- Italy: 19
- Canada: 18
- Sweden: 18
- Netherlands: 18
- Hungary: 16
- Denmark: 14
- Poland: 14
Trivia
No Tips
Throughout his entire professional career, Andy Kaufman kept a day job busing tables at Jerry’s Famous Deli in Los Angeles.
Canary Bruiser
Big Bird is 8 feet 2 inches tall.
Tour de France
Riding in the Tour de France is the equivalent of running a marathon almost every day for almost three weeks, plus climbing three Mount Everests. Each day, riders eat up to 10,000 calories, the equivalent of 17 Big Macs.
It Binds the Galaxy Together
In April 2005, Grabowiec, a village near Torun, Poland, named one of its streets after Obi-Wan Kenobi.
No word on property values.
First Class
When Canada Post routes letters to Santa Claus, it uses the postal code “H0H 0H0”.
Maximum Mileage
If you’re really dedicated, it’s possible to travel nearly 6,000 miles in a straight line within the United States.
A trip from Log Point on Elliott Key in Florida to Kure Island in Hawaii would cover 5,859 miles.
Showoff
George Bernard Shaw is the only person who has won both a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award.
He won the Nobel in 1925 and an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1938 (for Pygmalion).
“I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite,” he once said, “but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.”
She Ain’t Heavy
At 54 million pounds, the Statue of Liberty is the heaviest sculpture in the world.
Priorities
Jack Nicholson’s contract stipulates that he does not film movies during Lakers games.