Asphalt road surface is the most widely recycled material in the US, both by gross tonnage and by percentage. According to a report issued by the Federal Highway Administration and the United States Environmental Protection Agency, 80% of the asphalt from road surfaces' that is removed each year during widening and resurfacing projects is reused as part of new roads, roadbeds, shoulders and embankments.

Bulgaria has had the slowest population growth of any country in the world since 1950, with the exception of Saint Kitts and Nevis (due to their high emigration rate). In fact, population growth has been negative since the early 1990s, due to the economic collapse and high emigration rate. Now Bulgaria suffers a heavy demographic crisis. In 1988 the population of Bulgaria was 8,859,000 people (after a census), and a 2001-census shows a 7,950,000 population

Spilled animal parts and a Tomahawk missile that tumbled out of a truck caused some of the worst traffic nightmares of 2006, according to a report on roadway incidents. A meatpacking truck carrying cow body parts was involved in an accident near San Francisco, spilling its cargo across a freeway and causing massive headaches for commuters, said the compilation by Metro Networks traffic reporting firm. A truck in Houston involved in an accident tumbled off a ramp, breaking open and spilling frozen chickens onto a freeway below. New York had one of the most bizarre incidents of the year. A truck overturned in the Bronx in July, sending a Tomahawk missile it was carrying onto the roadway.

The Guinness Book of World Records itself holds a world record, as the best-selling copyrighted series. It was created by Sir Hugh Beaver, then the managing director of the Guinness Brewery.

Typically, a water tower's tank is sized to hold about a day's worth of water for the community served by the tower. The average sized water tower can hold 1 million gallons of water. If the pumps fail, the water tower holds enough water to keep things flowing for about a day.