- In the U.S., more than 10% of lottery prizes go unclaimed!
- Womens' hearts beat faster than mens'.
- Frogs cannot swallow without blinking.
- One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
- Each day, more than $40 Trillion Dollars changes hands worldwide.
- Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem.
- President George W. Bush and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner are cousins!
- Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
- A spider's silk is stronger than steel.
- The most powerful electric eel is found in the rivers of Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, and Peru, and produces a shock of 400-650 volts.
- Parrots have 500 pounds per square inch of pressure in their beaks.
- No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
- The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
- Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts indefinitely.
- The Japanese liquor, Mam, uses venomous snakes as one of its main ingredients.
- The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
- Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
- The practice of identifying baseball players by number was started by the Yankees in 1929.
- Contrary to popular belief, there are almost no Buddhists in India, nor have there been for about a thousand years.
- Females learn to talk earlier, use sentences earlier, and learn to read more quickly than males.
- Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
- According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.
- The state of Wyoming is named after a valley in Pennsylvania.
- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
- To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Listed Short Facts, Top 25 for 8.30.2010
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