About 200 babies are born worldwide every minute.

Your statistical chance of being murdered in the USA is 1 : 20,000.

About 10% of the workforce in Egypt is under 12 years of age. Although laws protecting children are on the books, they are not well enforced, partly because many poverty-stricken parents feel forced to send their children out to help ( Read more... )

I'm still feeling terrible, still have no voice. This is a first. I can't remember ever having had this last more than a day. Looks like I need to get to a doctor next week. I have no idea how I'm supposed to make phone calls this way. Will just have to communicate via email - lol. There's absolutely nothing to report about this weekend. Didn't go ( Read more... )

No one knows how many people live in the country of Bhutan. As of 1975, no census has  been taken.

There are more television sets in the United States than there are people in Japan.

France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.

The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.

Textbook shortages are so severe in U.S. public schools ( Read more... )

Student arrested for making a map of his school
Posted May 2nd 2007 7:30AM by John Bardinelli - Filed under: Culture

A Chinese student was removed from Clements High School in Fort Bend, Texas after parents complained he had re-created the school grounds in a game and uploaded the map for his friends to play. The boy was placed in the district's ( Read more... )

It's 2am Friday morning and my weekend has just begun. Wheeeee! Completed another essential step in the big project and feel like rewarding myself with a Nutella-Croissant and some middle of the night LJ time. Hey, there's just so much you can do at this hour, even in this city... Or is that, especially in this city? People tend to be surprised how ( Read more... )

Some Orthodox Jews refuse to speak Hebrew, believing it to be a language reserved only for the prophets.

A South African monkey was once awarded a medal and promoted to the rank of corporal during World War I.

Sliced bread was patented by a jeweller, Otto Rohwedder, in 1928. He had been working on it for 16 years, having started in 1912.

An American ( Read more... )

I slept half the day away. This after another all-nighter. I've always been nocturnal. Even when I was in highschool, the best time to study --if I ever did, heh-- was after 10pm. Thinking back it's crazy how little studying I really did... But that's a topic for another day. Yesterday was CINCO DE MAYO - a "Mexican" holiday in the United States ( Read more... )

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The ancient Egyptians considered themselves a red race and painted their bodies with red dye for emphasis.

For the ancient Romans, a red flag was a signal for battle.

In Russia, red means beautiful. The Bolsheviks used a red flag as their symbol when they overthrew the Tsar in 1917. That is how red became the color of communism.

In India, red is the ( Read more... )