Random Facts: 05/03/11
In the summer, the amount of water pouring over Niagra Falls each second could fill 13,000 bathtubs. A dairy cow produces about 100,000 glasses of milk in it's lifetime.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. You are more likely to be struck by lightning than to be eaten by a shark. You are more likely to be infected by flesh eating bacteria than you are to be struck by lightning.
The major change from the Phoenician alphabet to the Greek one of the eighth century was the addition of five letters to represent the vowel sounds. Today's geometry is based on the ideas of ancient Greeks Pythagoras and Euclid.
Domesticated for more than 10,000 years, the dog was one of the first animals domesticated by humans. One in three dog owners say they have talked to their pets
on the phone.
The term film noir, French for "black film", first applied to Hollywood films by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, was unknown to most American film industry professionals of the classic era. Humphrey Bogart's most memorable role, Casablanca's Rick Blaine, was originally developed for Ronald Reagan.
Albert Einstein did not speak his first words until late into age three. His parents thought he was retarded. While he was at Cambridge University, Charles Darwin joined
the "Gourmet Club," which met once a week to eat animals not often found in menus, like hawk. His zeal for weird food, however, broke down when he tried an old brown owl, which he found "indescribable."
If just 25 percent of U.S. families used 10 fewer plastic bags a month, we would save over 2.5 billion bags a year. About 1 percent of U.S. landfill space is full of disposable diapers, which take 500 years to decompose.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. You are more likely to be struck by lightning than to be eaten by a shark. You are more likely to be infected by flesh eating bacteria than you are to be struck by lightning.
The major change from the Phoenician alphabet to the Greek one of the eighth century was the addition of five letters to represent the vowel sounds. Today's geometry is based on the ideas of ancient Greeks Pythagoras and Euclid.
Domesticated for more than 10,000 years, the dog was one of the first animals domesticated by humans. One in three dog owners say they have talked to their pets
on the phone.
The term film noir, French for "black film", first applied to Hollywood films by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, was unknown to most American film industry professionals of the classic era. Humphrey Bogart's most memorable role, Casablanca's Rick Blaine, was originally developed for Ronald Reagan.
Albert Einstein did not speak his first words until late into age three. His parents thought he was retarded. While he was at Cambridge University, Charles Darwin joined
the "Gourmet Club," which met once a week to eat animals not often found in menus, like hawk. His zeal for weird food, however, broke down when he tried an old brown owl, which he found "indescribable."
If just 25 percent of U.S. families used 10 fewer plastic bags a month, we would save over 2.5 billion bags a year. About 1 percent of U.S. landfill space is full of disposable diapers, which take 500 years to decompose.
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