Crazy, Stupid facts..

Apr 27, 2005 23:34

Thought you people would enjoy theses.

#1.Quebec City, Canada, has about as much street crime as Disney World.

#2. An employee of the Alabama Department of Transportation installed spyware on his boss's computer and proved that the boss spent 10% of his time working (20% of time checking stocks and 70% of the time playing solitaire). The employee was fired, the boss kept his job.

#3. More people study English in China than speak it in the United States of America (300 million).

#4. The New York City Police Department has a $3.3 billion annual budget, larger than all but 19 of the world's armies.

#5. A party boat filled with 60 men and women capsized in Texas after all the passengers rushed to one side as the boat passed a nude beach.

#6. Physicists have already performed a simple type of teleportation, transferring the quantum characteristics of one atom onto another atom at a different location.

#7. Sports Illustrated magazine allows subscribers to opt out of receiving the famous swimsuit issue each year. Fewer than 1% choose this option.

#8. Each year, more people are killed by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.

#9. The United States has five percent of the world's population, but twenty-five percent of the world's prison population.

#10. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

#11. George Washington spent about 7% of his annual salary on liquor.

#12. The time spent deleting SPAM costs United States businesses $21.6 billion annually.

#13. The day after President George W. Bush was re-elected, Canada's main immigration website had 115,000 visitors. Before Bush's re-election, this site averaged about 20,000 visitors each day.

HAHA, The last one is my favourite.
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