What I read on the plane today:

- 50,000,000 hot dogs are consumed every day in the States...5,500 miles worth if in a line.

- We eat 210 million eggs a day...if laid in a neat row, it would be 6,600 miles long.

- Enough pavement (2,750 acres) is laid every day enough to make a seven-foot-wide path from Los Angeles to New York City.

- 2,700 miles of licorice twists are eaten daily. A line of them would reach from San Antonio to Miami and back.

- And if everyone who brushes their teeth were to squeeze out the paste one day onto a bike path, the thin white line would stretch from coast to coast, plus a little bit (2,928 miles).

From the July 2006 US Airways Magazine blogged in route from D.C. To Boston