~10% of male computer users are colorblind
~Airport security personnel find about six weapons a day searching passengers.
~32% of singles polled said they think they'll meet their future mate online
~An adult crocodile can go two years w/o eating
~State with the highest perceentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
~Rules of the road: Men are more likely than women to run stoplights,
but women are more likely to switch lanes without signaling
~Queen bees only sting other queen bees
~American's consume 16,000 tons of asprin every year
~Louis XIV owned 413 beds
~When medival Europeans burned witches, the witches' families had to pay
for the firewood
~Four most dangerous steps on most staircases: the two at the top and the
two at the bottom
~At last count, Minnesots had 99 lakes named Mud Lake
~World's largest restaurant: The Royal Dragon, in Bangkok, which serves
5,000 diners at a time. All 541 waiters are on roller skates
~Bottle-nosed whatles can dive 3,000 feet in two minutes
~If a grasshopper is hungry enough, it will eat the paint off your house.
~Snails have teeth
~The average American uses 730 crayons by the age of 10
~Hawaii's state fish is the humuhumunukunukuapua'a
~An ergasiophobe is someone who'a afraid of work
~Average cost of a movie ticket in 1940: 24 cents
~The average American dog will cost its owner $14,600 over it's lifetime
~The Pentagon spent $50 million on Viagra for American troops and
retirees in 1999
~Drunk ants always fall over on their right side
~Each year, American's use enough foam peanuts to fill ten 85-story
skyscrapers
~Ketchup was once sold as a medicine
~If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long on
the day he died.
~It's impossible to lick your elbow
~The men who served as guards along the Great Wall of China in the Middle
Ages were often born on the wall, grew up there, married there, died
there, and were buried within it. Many of these guards never left the wall in
their entire lives.
~Boredom can lead to madness in parrots. When caged by themselves and
neglected for long periods of time, these intelligent, sociable birds
can easily become mentally ill. Many inflict wounds upon themselves, develop
strange tics, and rip out their own feathers. The birds need constant
interaction, affection, and mental stimulation; some bird authorities have
determined that some parrot breeds have the mental abilities of a
5-year-old human child. Should a neglected parrot go mad, there is little
that can be done to restore it to normalcy. In England, there are "mental
institutions" for such unfortunate creatures.
~Unlike most fish, electric eels cannot get enough oxygen from water.
Approximately every five minutes, they must surface to breathe, or they will
drown. Unlike most fish, they can swim both backwards and forwards.
~Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonald's.
~From the smallest microprocessor to the biggest mainframe, the average
American depends on more than 264 computers per day.
~In the famous Parker Brothers game Monopoly, the space on which a player
has the greatest statistical chance of landing is Illinois Avenue. This
is followed by the B&O Railroad, Free Parking, Tennessee Avenue,
New York Avenue, and the Reading Railroad.
~It is estimated that the average person living in North America opens
the fridge 22 times daily.
~46% of all violence on TV occurs in cartoons
~In web site addresses on the Internet, "http" stands for
"hypertext transfer protocol."
~The telephone area code for a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean is 871.
~In 1981, a tornado lifted a baby from its pram in the Italian city
of Ancona. The baby was carried 50 feet into the air and set down safely
300 feet
away — without waking.
~Of the 206 bones in the average adult human body, 106 are found in the
hands and feet (54 are in the hands; 52 are in the feet).
~The chameleon has a tongue that is 1.5 times the length of its body.
~Because of an incredible anti-dehydration system, some cactus species release
1/600th the moisture of an ordinary plant the same size. Others are able to drink
water from humidity in the air.
~The body has 70,000 miles of blood vessels. The heart pumps blood through this
labyrinth and back again once every minute.
~When you're looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate. When you're
looking at someone you hate, they do the same thing.
~The Arctic ocean is the smallest and shallowest.
~Singer Dionne Warwick's full name at birth was Marie Dionne Warwick.
~In the Netherlands, marijuana is not officially legal, but people are able to buy grass,
hashish, loose joints, smoking paraphernalia, and seeds in registered "coffee shops".
Magic mushrooms are also available. Despite such easy access, only about 5 percent
of the population indulges.
~A scrum is rugby's equivalent of a hockey face-off, except that it involves all those
playing the position of forward on both teams.
~Men with mustaches may be allergic to their own lip hair. That is because mustaches
may harbor airborne pollens that trigger allergies.
~Diamonds were first mined in India over 4,000 years ago.
~The first BB gun was invented in 1886. Made for children, it frightened many parents
because it was an actual working gun that could cause serious injury. The BB gun
was a descendant of the cap gun, which was invented soon after the U.S. Civil War.
The BB gun uses compressed air produced by a spring-operated plunger.
~The war with Spain was the shortest war in American history. It lasted five months:
April 1898 to August 1898.
~Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.
~The word "taxi" is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, and
Portuguese.
~The national headquarters for Bat World Sanctuary is located at Mineral Wells,
Texas. More than 150 bats from around the world have found permanent refuge in
this indoor, natural habitat facility. These non-releasable bats include those that
have been used in research, orphaned, permanently injured, or confiscated from the
illegal pet trade. Bat World is a sanctuary as well as an educational center. The bats
that participate in tours are only those that are not stressed while being viewed.
During tours, bats can be seen close up, flying in simulated natural-habitat flight
cages, and just "hanging out." Touching the bats is not permitted, but cameras are
welcome. Actually, many of the bats are naturally curious and willing to be
photographed.
~Television comedy queen Lucille Ball appeared on a record 29 covers of TV Guide
magazine.
~Horned lizards eat ants. They wait in areas where ants are working and when one
passes by, they flick out their tongue, catch their prey, and swallow without
chewing. Apparently their digestive tract is immune to bites and stings.
~Canada is the second-largest country in the world after Russia. Nearly 90 percent of
the Canada's population is concentrated within 161 km of the United States/Canada
border.
~The largest water eddy in the world is the Sargasso Sea, a huge slowly-revolving
area of water in the mid-Atlantic Ocean between the Azores and the West Indies.
~Houdini was the first man to fly an airplane solo in Australia.
~All hurricanes are born over water, and their life span is about 10 days.
~Isaac Asimov wrote more than 500 books during his lifetime (1920-1992). He has the
honor of being the only person who has authored a book in each of the Dewey
Decimal System classifications.
~A recent survey reveals that one in four Americans "believe in" astrology, up from 18
percent in 1988. One third (33 percent) of those in the 18- to 29-year-old bracket
believe, to some extent, that horoscopes and the stars influence and predict events
in their lives. Only 18 percent of those 60 years or older put much credence in
astrology.
