»  The calories burned daily by the sled dogs running in Alaska's annual Iditarod race average 10,000. The 1,149-mile race commemorates the 1925 "Race for Life" when 20 volunteer mushers relayed medicine from Anchorage to Nome to battle a children's diphtheria epidemic.

»  How do zoo animals keep cool in the summer heat? At the Phoenix Zoo, zookeepers freeze assorted fruits, vegetables, fish, and seeds in big chunks of ice. These "popsicles" are tossed daily into the watering holes of the animals' cages and living arenas. Animal experts maintain that not only do these popsicles help keep the animals cool during Arizona's 116-plus degree summer weather, but rouse the animals into retrieving the ice chunks from the pools, simulating behavior in the wild.

»  In 1995, giving in to fan pressure, Parliament leaders in Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula ordered that the defunct U.S. soap opera Santa Barbara be broadcast in Russian rather than Ukrainian. The show was a daily highlight of millions of people in the former Soviet Union, and hundreds of Crimean Communists demonstrated to protest the Ukrainian dubbing of the show.

»  The average daily growth of a bamboo plant is 35.4 inches.

»  Bread is cheap in Egypt, less than a penny a loaf, mainly because the bread industry is heavily subsidized. Locally grown wheat is not enough to feed the nation's population, however, especially the poor who depend on bread for half their daily calories.

»  The Amazon River has a daily flow of three times the flow of all rivers in the United States combined.

»  Daily average yield of an oil well at full production in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay field is 10,000 barrels. In the other 48 states, the average is only 11 barrels.

»  Snacking accounts for 15 to 20 percent of Americans' daily caloric intake.

»  Staying warm in cold weather isn't easy. Up to 1,800 calories daily--90 percent of many people's energy intake--may have to be burned to maintain a body temperature of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

»  Pound for pound, the human body produces more heat than the sun. The sun's heat production averages only two calories per pound of its mass daily, while the average human body generates 10 calories per pound of mass each day--five times as much as the sun.

»  Studies show that when premature babies receive a daily massage routine, they gain an average 47 percent more weight, and are discharged six days earlier than preemies without massage.

»  The body’s daily requirement of vitamins and minerals is less than a thimbleful.

»  The human brain is capable of recording over 86 million bits of information daily.

»  It is a common myth that chocolate aggravates acne. Experiments conducted at the University of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Naval Academy found that consumption of chocolate �?even frequent daily dietary intake �?had no effect on the incidence of acne. Professional dermatologists no longer link acne with diet.

»  It is estimated that the human race grows daily by about 214,000 people.

»  The Pennsylvania Packet & General Advertiser, launched in 1784, was the first successful regular daily newspaper in the United States.

»  The oldest college newspaper in the United States is The Darmouth, which began in 1799. The oldest daily college newspaper in the United States is the Yale Daily News, that began in 1878.

»  More than 14 million BIC pens are sold daily in 150 countries. "BIC" is actually a shortened version of founder Marcel Bich's name.

»  Ruth Snyder was the subject of a tabloid photo taken in 1928. A hidden camera, strapped to a Daily News photographer's leg captured an photo of the woman as she was executed at Sing Sing, produced a horrifying image for the cover of the tabloid.

»  Visitors to Acapulco must make a point of seeing the famed cliff divers, who perform their daily dives at La Quebrada, and have since 1934.