Random Facts
1. Washing your hands after you go to the bathroom can reduce
the spread of diarrheal diseases by almost half.
2. The germs on your fingers double after using the toilet, but 50 percent of men and 25 percent of women do not wash their hands afterward.
3. When threatened, the hairy frog, or 'horror frog,' intentionally breaks its own bones to produce claws that protrude from its toe pads.
4. If cornered, some horned lizards species can shoot their potently foul blood from their eye sockets up to six feet.
5. Nonsmokers who are exposed to second hand smoke at home or in the work place face a 30 percent increase in their chances of developing heart disease or lung cancer.
6. A 2005 National Household Survey on Drug Use and Health indicates that 46 percent of U.S. residents 12 years of age and older have tried marijuana one or more times.
7. The Earth is not actually round in shape; in fact it is geoid. This simply means that the rounded shape has a slight bulge towards the equator.
8. Planet Earth is the only planet whose name has not been derived from the Roman or Greek mythology.
9. The Amazon River is so wide that from its mouth pours one fifth of all the moving fresh water on Earth. Its discharge runs at 7,200,000 cubic feet of water per second; greater than the next ten largest rivers combined!
10. Less than 3 percent of the water on earth is fresh water. Approximately 1.6 percent is usable.
11. By making use of the energy of the recoil of a fired bullet to eject the spent cartridge and load the next, Hiram Maxim in 1884 produced the first fully automatic machine gun.
12. Early guns took so long to load and fire that bows and arrows--in trained hands--were twelve times more efficient.
13. The number of atoms in a pound of iron is nearly five trillion trillion: 4,891,500,000,000,000,000,000,000.
14. To keep the unemployment rate steady at 9.6%, the US economy needs to create 100,000 jobs per month. This assumes average population growth of 1% and a flat labor force participation rate.
the spread of diarrheal diseases by almost half.
2. The germs on your fingers double after using the toilet, but 50 percent of men and 25 percent of women do not wash their hands afterward.
3. When threatened, the hairy frog, or 'horror frog,' intentionally breaks its own bones to produce claws that protrude from its toe pads.
4. If cornered, some horned lizards species can shoot their potently foul blood from their eye sockets up to six feet.
5. Nonsmokers who are exposed to second hand smoke at home or in the work place face a 30 percent increase in their chances of developing heart disease or lung cancer.
6. A 2005 National Household Survey on Drug Use and Health indicates that 46 percent of U.S. residents 12 years of age and older have tried marijuana one or more times.
7. The Earth is not actually round in shape; in fact it is geoid. This simply means that the rounded shape has a slight bulge towards the equator.
8. Planet Earth is the only planet whose name has not been derived from the Roman or Greek mythology.
9. The Amazon River is so wide that from its mouth pours one fifth of all the moving fresh water on Earth. Its discharge runs at 7,200,000 cubic feet of water per second; greater than the next ten largest rivers combined!
10. Less than 3 percent of the water on earth is fresh water. Approximately 1.6 percent is usable.
11. By making use of the energy of the recoil of a fired bullet to eject the spent cartridge and load the next, Hiram Maxim in 1884 produced the first fully automatic machine gun.
12. Early guns took so long to load and fire that bows and arrows--in trained hands--were twelve times more efficient.
13. The number of atoms in a pound of iron is nearly five trillion trillion: 4,891,500,000,000,000,000,000,000.
14. To keep the unemployment rate steady at 9.6%, the US economy needs to create 100,000 jobs per month. This assumes average population growth of 1% and a flat labor force participation rate.
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