• There are approximately 8000 people killed per year in pedestrian-on-pedestrian accidents in the US.

• Since the destruction of the World Trade Center, the Empire State Building is struck by lightning nearly thrice as often.

• The first draft of the Declaration of Independence read "life, liberty, and happiness" until Benjamin Franklin successfully argued that happiness is not a right and cannot be guaranteed, so they compromised with the "pursuit of happiness".

• Minoru Yamasaki, the architect of the World Trade Center, was afraid of heights.

• Comparing injuries per mile, travel by horseback is over 80 times more dangerous than by car.