Fun (and most likely useless) Stuff!

Heres for FUN!

Fun Facts:

  • Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
  • Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
  • Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
  • A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
  • The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald's.
  • The Hubble Space Telescope weighs 12 tons (10,896 kilograms), is 43 feet (13.1 meters) long, and cost $2.1 billion to originally build.
  • The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
  • Snakes are true carnivorous because they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
  • A pipe organ was the loudest sound that could be made in the year 1600.
  • In 32 years there are about 1 billion seconds!
  • Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  • The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515.
  • In 1960, the ratio of the average Fortune 500 CEO's pay to the US president's salary was 2-to-1. Today, this ratio is around 30-to-1.
  • Skylab, the first American space station, fell to the earth in thousands of pieces in 1979. Thankfully most over the ocean.
  • American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
  • On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
  • No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
  • You will now attempt the above to see if it is true, fail, then laugh at yourself or are thinking, "huh, thats strange"
  • Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
  • It is possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs.
  • Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
  • The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter “J”.

Well. Those are some… interesting facts…

For most useless pieces of Knowledge, visit this website:

http://www.randomfunfacts.com/

Also, there is a document on this page in the "Files" tab at the bottom. They are brain teasers if you get bored. Scroll to the bottom of the page, click on "FILES" then upload the "Brain Teasers" file. Have fun!

These are Strange (But Strangely Amusing) Links. Take A Look!

http://www.creativefamily.net/emmy/mugglepants/
http://www.therightfoot.net/mystuff/whatever/swf/bubblewrap.swf
http://www.caedes.net/Zephir.cgi?lib=Caedes::Gallery&gallery=abstract

The last one has cool pictures.

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