- A large swarm of desert locusts can consume 20,000 tons of vegetation a day.
- If all the Coca-Cola vending machines in the U.S. were stacked one on top of each other, the pile would be over 450 miles high.
- The average bra size today is 36C. Ten years ago it was 34B. (That's weird!!!)
- A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
- The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver."
- Pearls melt in vinegar.
- The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
- 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
- No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
- A penny dropped from the top of a skyscraper could not kill someone (but could cause injury).
- The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
- The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
- Wal-Mart Stores bought $18 billion of goods from China in 2004 making it China's eighth-largest trading partner (ahead of Australia, Canada and Russia).
Monday, January 26, 2009
Random Facts...
Yeah.. I'm smarter than you Adam...
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