Random Facts: 05/28/11
Bamboo is the fastest-growing woody plant on earth, growing as fast as 47.6 inches in a 24-hour period. Giant pandas can consume, on average, 40 pounds of fresh bamboo leaves per day.
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52% of all Icelanders own a vibrator. In Japan, the age of consent is 13.
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Twenty-eight million Americans use indoor tanning booths every year. In the last thirty years, the per capita rate in America for melanoma has increased by 100%.
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The average Pixar film makes twice the money invested into it domestically and five times that amount on a global scale! None of their movies has garnered less than $150 million in the U.S. Walt Disney only attended one year of high school.
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Heat waves are one of the most lethal types of weather phenomena, claiming an average of 1,000 lives in America's fifteen largest cities each year. The 1988 heat wave and drought across the eastern United States cost the country $61.6 billion in damages and caused an estimated 5,000-10,000 deaths.
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7-Eleven is North America's number one retailer of fresh grilled hot dogs, selling approximately 100 million each year. Mickey Mouse's first words were "hot Dogs" which he said in the 1929 short 'The Karnival Kid'.
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Almost 99 percent of imported food is never inspected by the FDA or the USDA. One pound of peanut butter can contain up to 150 bug frag-
ments and 5 rodent hairs.
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52% of all Icelanders own a vibrator. In Japan, the age of consent is 13.
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Twenty-eight million Americans use indoor tanning booths every year. In the last thirty years, the per capita rate in America for melanoma has increased by 100%.
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The average Pixar film makes twice the money invested into it domestically and five times that amount on a global scale! None of their movies has garnered less than $150 million in the U.S. Walt Disney only attended one year of high school.
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Heat waves are one of the most lethal types of weather phenomena, claiming an average of 1,000 lives in America's fifteen largest cities each year. The 1988 heat wave and drought across the eastern United States cost the country $61.6 billion in damages and caused an estimated 5,000-10,000 deaths.
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7-Eleven is North America's number one retailer of fresh grilled hot dogs, selling approximately 100 million each year. Mickey Mouse's first words were "hot Dogs" which he said in the 1929 short 'The Karnival Kid'.
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Almost 99 percent of imported food is never inspected by the FDA or the USDA. One pound of peanut butter can contain up to 150 bug frag-
ments and 5 rodent hairs.
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