~ The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
~ The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II Killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
~ A ‘jiffy’ is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
~ The average person spends 6 months of their life sitting at red lights.
~ Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%
~ It’s against the law to doze off under a hair dryer in Florida/against the law to slap an old friend on the back in Georgia/against the law to Play hopscotch on a Sunday in Missouri.
~ Statues in parks: If the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
~ The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
~ The following sentence: ‘A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.’ Contains the nine different pronunciations of “ough” in the English Language.
~ The name for Oz in the “Wizard of Oz” was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z; hence the name “OZ.”
~ The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
~ Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
~ Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
~ William Marston engineered one of the earliest forms of the polygraph in the early 1900’s. Later he went on to create the comic strip Wonder Woman, a story about a displaced Amazon princess who forces anyone caught in her magic lasso to tell the truth
~ Americans travel 1,144,721,000 miles by air every day
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Mama Spaghetti
14 years agoHaha. As I was reading these, I thought to myself many times, "Hey! That's good to know!"
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