Thursday, March 3, 2011

20 Random Facts

  1. 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
  2. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
  3. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
  4. 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
  5. 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways.
  6. 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
  7. 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
  8. 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "A meaningless existential hell."
  9. 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
  10. 5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem.
  11. 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.
  12. 7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
  13. 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.
  14. 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
  15. A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.
  16. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
  17. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
  18. A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
  19. A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
  20. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

7 comments:

  1. That 12 newborns number is a lie. They're very hardcore about that stuff in hospitals now, with barcode and immediate DNA swabbing.

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  2. LiveTheBoss: Good to know, however what you say might be true in the States, what about other countries?

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  3. eat beef to stop global warming!

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  4. Webster is slipping. They need to get their Auto-Correct on.

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  5. interesting facts i didnt know majority of them so definitely interesting post

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  6. So that's why cats like getting their ears rubbed. Got so many muscles, it's gotta be relaxing to have all that rubbbed.

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