10 GREAT FACTS A DAY - Part 132 (12/01/2014)

1311.            A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

1312.            May babies are on average 200 grams heavier than babies born in other months.

1313.            Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on its runways
    to scare birds away.

1314.            The first German car to be built solely outside of Germany is the BMW Z3.

1315.            In China, fish is eaten more than three times what it is in the United States.

1316.            The United Parcel Service shipped the killer whale Keiko (star of Disney movie
    "Free Willy") from Mexico City to Newport, Oregon in 1998.

1317.            Hippos can live up to 40 years in the wild.

1318.            The windiest place in the world is Mount Washington, New Hampshire, USA. The
    highest wind was on April 12, 1934 when it reached 231 mph.

1319.            The first restaurant to open in Hollywood was the Musso & Frank Grill in 1919.

1340.            Corn Flakes were invented after Will Keith Kellogg and his brother Dr. John Harvey
    Kellogg set about developing a nutritious cereal for the patients of a health resort in
    1890.