Well I haven't blogged for a long time so I figured I provide something very random for a bit of a change… below are just a set of random facts which have been collected from Google! Thanks
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· The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
· It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
· One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.
· Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
· The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
· The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
· TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
· Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
· A snail can sleep for 3 years.
· Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
· The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
· More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
· Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
· The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.
· Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
· According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or left-handed --- that is, they favor either their right or left paws.
· A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
· Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as 3 Greyhound buses.
· Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time.
· Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.
· Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.
· Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
· Only female mosquitoes bite.
· Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
· If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
· Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep.
· Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
· Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
· The outdoor temperature can be estimated to within several degrees by timing the chirps of a cricket. It is done this way: count the number of chirps in a 15-second period, and add 37 to the total. The result will be very close to the actual Fahrenheit temperature. This formula, however, only works in warm weather. (Try it!)
· In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
· Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesar. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920's.
· A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
· Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
· You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
· The two longest one-syllable words in the English language is "screeched. & strengths."
· Barbie's full first name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
· All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
· A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
· "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
· The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
· The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element'.
· Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
· Cat's urine glows under a black light.
· The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
· The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
· Chrysler built B-29's engines that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
· On the new hundred-dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
· All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
· Almonds are members of the peach family.
· If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050
· The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
· The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 Oz.
· The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
· Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."
· Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.
· Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
· The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5megabytes.
· In many cases, the amount of storage space on a record-able CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes.
· Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
· A group of frogs is called an army.
· A group of rhinos is called a crash.
· A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
· A group of whales is called a pod.
· A group of geese is called a gaggle.
· A group of ravens is called a murder.
· A group of officers is called a mess.
· A group of larks is called an exaltation.
· A group of owls is called a parliament.