10 GREAT FACTS A DAY - Part 113 (24/12/2013)

1121.            An artist from Chicago named Dwight Kalb created a statue of Madonna made out
   of 180 pounds of ham.

1122.            Reports from owners of cats and dogs indicate that 21% of dogs and 7% of cats
   snore.

1123.            The scarlet tanager, a songbird native to Illinois, can eat as many as 2,100 gypsy-
   moth caterpillars in one hour.

1124.            To make one raindrop of water, it takes approximately a million cloud droplets.

1125.            At 120 miles per hour, a Formula One car generates so much downforce that it can
   drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel.

1126.            The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes bone which is located in the
   ear.

1127.            India used to be the richest country in the world until the British invasion in the early
   17th Century.

1128.            The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

1129.            Some African tribes refer to themselves as "motherhoods" instead of families.

1130.            Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.