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[*]The only man-made structure visible from space is the Great Wall of China.
[*]If you divide the Great Pyramid's perimeter by two times it's height, you get pi to the ffifteenth digit!.
[*]A piece of paper can be folded no more then 9 times.
[*]The RAM required to run WordPerfect for Win95 is 8 times the amount needed aboard fthe space shuttle.
[*]Whitby has more doghnut shops per capita than any other place in the world.
[*]The billionth digit of pi is 9.
[*]The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life span
[*]Canada imports approx. 822 Russian-made hockey sticks on an average day
[*]97% of Canadians say they would not borrow a toothbrush if they forgot to pack their fown
[*]The largest apple pie ever baked was 40 x 23 feet
[*]If you look carefully at the picture of Mona Lisa, you will notice a bridge hidden in the background
[*]10% of StarTrek fans replace the lenses on their glasses every 5 years whether they need fto or not.
[*]5%-10% of StarTrek fans may be addicted to the show and suffer withdrawl symptoms if they miss an episode.
[*]Between 25% and 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
[*]The sun is NOT the biggest star in the universe.
[*]The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79cmý
[*]The revolving door was invented in 1888
[*]Abo elementary school, built in 1976 in Artesia New Mexico, was the first ever funderground school
[*]The first recorded occurenece of a Tornado was June 10, 1682
[*]The first umbrellas were used in Windsor Connecticut, 1740
[*]The first audio CD's appeared in the USA in 1984
[*]The first audio CD manufactured in the US was Bruce Springstean's 'Born in The USA'
[*]Toronto, Ontario has approximately 7,000 eating establishments
[*]40 pleople are sent to the hospitol for dog bites every minute.
[*]There are 1,355,000 (+/- 1000) Monoliths on Jupiter in 2010: A Space Oddessy (NOT 2001!!)
[*]The Monoliths reproduce at a rate of one every 2 minutes
[*]The Monoliths all have propportional sizes of 1x4x9
[*]Montpelier Vermont is the only state capital without a mcdonalds
[*]13 blimps in the world, nine in US
[*]Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'
[*]Most common name om world is Mohammed
[*]It takes a half agallon of water to make macaroni and a gallon of water to clean the pot.
[*]The original Ford vehicles had Dodge engines
[*]The most popular ice cream flavour is vanilla
[*]The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines
[*]The average person over fifty will have spent 1 year looking for lost items.
[*]78% of cats never travel with their owners
[*]44% of hotels allow pets into the rooms
[*]September 16-21 is Farm Animal Awarness week
[*]Uranus's orbital axis is tilted 90ø
[*]The opening day of the Montreal summer Olypics was only 21ø celsius
[*]The Earth orbits the sun at about 18.5 miles per second
[*]The surface area of the Earth is 197,000,000 square miles
[*]The 29,249th digit of pi is a seven
[*]Mount. Olympis Mons on Mars is three times the size of Mount. Everest
[*]A golf ball has 360 dimples
[*]Most toilets flush in E flat
[*]2,000 pounds of space dust and other space debris fall on the Earth every day
[*]Each month, there is at least one report of UFOs from each province of Canada
[*]40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year
[*]Approx. 25,200 umbrellas are lost each year on the London transit system
[*]Aprrox. 5,600 umbrellas are lost each year on the Toronto transit system
[*]The Olympic flag pole at the Tokyo Olympics was 49 feet, 10 3/4 inches tall
[*]5,200,000 pounds of pickles are consumed each day by Americans
[*]1/3 of all Americans flush the toilet while still on it
[*]There are 333 squares of toilet paper are on a roll
[*]A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightend
[*]You can be fined up to $1,000 for whistling on a Sunday in Salt Lake City, Utah
[*]By the time you reach grade 12, you will have been in school for about 17,000 hours
[*]4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day
[*]It takes about 142.18 licks to reach the center of a tootsie pop
[*]The serial number of the first MAC ever produced was 2001
[*]The average web page contains 500 words
[*]It it illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California
[*]It takes an average of 48 to 100 tries to solve a rubix cube puzzle
[*]If done perfectly, any rubix cube combination can be solved in 17 turns
[*]The holes in fly swaters are used to lower air resistance
[*]It is illegal to frown at cows in Bladworth, Saskatchewan
[*]51% of turns are right turns
[*]The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute
[*]In Jasmine Saskatchewan, it is illegal for a cow to moo within 300km of a private home
[*]The averge womens' handbag weighs between 3 and 5 pounds
[*]Most people button thier shirt upwards
[*]The averagae American butt is 14.9 in. long
[*]There are only 4 flavours of plain M&Ms
[*]More bullets were fired in 'Starship Troopers' than in any other movie ever made
[*]60% of electrocutions occur while talking on the telephone during a thunderstorm.
[*]The average person spends 30 years mad at a family member
[*]The average person spends 40 years cleainging.
[*]The record distance for cherry pit spitting is 95 feet, 7 inches.
[*]The Queen Elizabeth ship burns a gallon of oil to move 1 foot
[*]The name of the girl on the statue of liberty is Mother of Exiles
[*]3.6 cans of Spam are consumed each second.
[*]There's a systematic lull in conversation every 7 minutes.
[*]The buzz generated by an electric razor in America is in the key of B flat.
[*]In England it is in the key of G.
[*]Most digital alarm clocks ring in the key of B flat.
[*]Americans eat 12 billion bananas each year.
[*]There are 1,575 steps from the ground flooer to the top of the Empire State building.
[*]The worlds record for keeping a Lifesaver in the mouth with the hole intact is 7 hours and 10 minutes.
[*]There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
[*]the world record for spitting a watermelon seed is 65 feet 4 inches.
[*]in the Phillippine jungle, the yo-yo was first used as a weapon.
[*]there are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a chess game.
[*]one year contains 31,557,600 seconds.
[*]The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
[*]The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of old when the engines fwere pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how fto walk up straight staircases.
[*]Only person to win $64,000 Challenge and $64,000 Question: Dr. Joyce Brothers (subject is boxing)
[*]Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
[*]Many people think that the clock in the tower of Londons House Of Parliment is called f'Big Ben.' Actually, the nickname 'Big Ben' originally applied to the huge bell in the clock, fnot to the clock itself.
[*]Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.
[*]The only nation whose name begins with an 'A', but doesn't end in an 'A' is Afghanistan.
[*]The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
[*]Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
[*]Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
[*]The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
[*]There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
[*]The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
[*]The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the
[*]only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving funder an airplane.
[*]Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
[*]Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
[*]All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
[*]The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
[*]City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
[*]The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy fthe building.
[*]If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, the New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
[*]If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
[*]In space, astronauts are unable to cry, because there is no gravity and the tears won't flow.
[*]Researchers in Denmark found that beer tastes best when drunk to the accompaniment of a certain musical tone. The optimal frequency is different for each beer, they reported. The correct harmonious tone for Carlsberg Lager, for example, is 510-520 cycles per second.
[*]Evaluation and Parameterization of Stability and Safety Performance Characteristics of Two and Three Wheeled Vehicular Toys for Riding. Title of a $230,000 research project proposed by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, to study the various ways children fall off bicycles.
[*]Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
[*]Several varieties of lightning have been identified by meteorologists. In the so-called positive Giant type, the temperature of the lightning bolt reaches 30,000 degrees C. Over five times hotter than the surface of the sun.
[*]There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S that there are real ones.
[*]The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that it breaks the sound barrier. The crack of a whip is actually a tiny sonic boom.
[*]The save icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
[*]Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
[*]Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
From: http://www.geocities.com/transactoid/facts.htm
