Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Really Really Random facts. I'm serious!

A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.

In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.

Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.

The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.

1/6 of your life are spent on Wednesdays.

The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.

every human has spent about half an hour as a single cell.

7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.

Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.

Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.

The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls.

The Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.

Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.

You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.

Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.

If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its weight in honey.

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