random facts

Aug 28, 2004 16:42

as some of you may know i am a fan of useless information and random facts so here are some that i found on www.coolquiz.com:

It requires the use of 72 muscles to speak a single word.

If the Earth were the size of a quarter, the sun would be as large as a 9-foot ball and would be located a football feilds distance from Earth.

Soft drinks are america's favorite beverage. Water ranks #2 and milk is #3. The average american drinks about 52 gallons of soft drinks per year.

Goats generally need their hoofs trimmed once a month.

The lens of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life.

The fragrant patchouli is a member of the mint family.

More than 1,130,000 packages of jell-o gelatin are purchased of eaten everyday.

To survive most birds must eat at least half their own weight in food each day.

Sending red christmas cards to anyone in japan constitutes as bad etiquette, sine funeral notices are customarily printed in red.

Pigs, walruses, and light colored horses can be sunburned.

According to Aristotle, the liver served as the body's seat of emotion.

Swimming pools in the U.S. contain enough water to cover the city of Sanfrancisco with a layer of water about 7 feet deep.

More than 75 million people are estimated to have been killed by earthquakes in the history of our planet.

The Mona Lisa measures less than 2 feet by 2 feet.

well there is a dose of random facts for today.
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