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Name some random facts?

- During it's lifetime an oyster changes its sex from male to female and back several times.
- Crickets hear through their knees.
- A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
- A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
- Everyday is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it.
- Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
- The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
- The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
- The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
- Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.

Some things I didn't know, as you can see, I'm bored.

A flea can jump up to 13 inches which is about 200 times the length of its own body. This would equate to a 900 foot jump by a six-foot man!

Approximately 400,000 people each year are bitten by venomous snakes; approximately half of them will die. (The majority of these people live in Asia and Africa.)

There are over 14 TRILLION UNUSED flyer MILES (most of us know why).

The Starbucks coffee chain is named after the first mate, Starbuck, in Herman Melville’s classic novel, ‘Moby Dick.’

The very first fast food chain to introduce a drive up service window was Jack In the Box in 1951.

On average, Americans consume 350 slices of pizza per second.

Left-handed people with college educations earn 10 to 15 percent more than their right-handed counterparts (after accounting for other determinants of pay—age, intelligence, marital status, and race and ethnicity).

The Hundred Years War lasted 116 years.

Panama Hats are made in Ecuador.

Catgut comes from sheep and horses.

Russians celebrate the October Revolution in November.

A camel's hair brush is made of squirrel fur.

The Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean are named after dogs.

A purple finch is actually crimson.

Georgia is the only U.S. state named after a king – England's King George II.

Georgia’s nickname, The Peach State,’ may be a misnomer. Both California (#1) and South Carolina (#2) each produce more peaches annually than Georgia (#3).

The state of Wyoming is named after the Wyoming Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania.

The MOST densely populated state in the U.S. is New Jersey with an average of 1,143.9 people per square mile.

The LEAST densely populated state in the U.S. is Alaska with an average of 1.1 people per square mile.

Alaska has 33,904 miles of coastline.

Kaskaskia, Illinois, Illinois' first state capital, is WEST of the Mississippi River. The rest of Illinois lies EAST of the Mississippi River.

The Cincinnati, Ohio airport is in Kentucky.

The Statue of Liberty is in New Jersey.

You can snow ski and snowboard in Hawaii.

Approximately 37% or almost 4 out of 10 people in the U.S. live within 100 miles of the coast.

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50% of the U.S. population who file income taxes report annual income of less than $30,000 which leads us to the next fact…..

50% of those people who pay income taxes contribute only a little over 3% of the overall revenues collected by the IRS .

.5% (1/2 of 1 percent) of the U.S. population has adjusted gross incomes over $500,000.

The richest 1% of the people in the U.S. earn 21.2% of the total overall income of all wage earners.

Los Alamos, NM has the highest percentage of millionaires in the U.S. (9.7% of its residents are millionaires)

Fed Ex delivers 6,000,000, (6 million) packages a day

New Hampshire has the highest per capita consumption of spirits - 3.6 gallons per person annually, on average.
North Dakota has the highest per capita consumption of beer.
Residents of the District of Columbia have the highest per capita consumption of wine (no surprise here).
West Virginia has the LOWEST per capita consumption of wine.
Utah, ‘Mormon Country,’ has the LOWEST per capita consumption of both spirits and beer. (no surprise here)

The United States is the third most populous country but its 300,000,000+ residents represent slightly less than 5% of the world’s 6.35 billion people.

Americans spend an average 38 hours a year sitting in traffic that wastes an estimated 26 gallons of gasoline per person – Los Angeles metropolitan drivers waste the most gas sitting in traffic for 78 hours per year.

Americans, on average, spend 18% of their income on transportation as compared to only 13% spent on food.

The wife is the sole wage earner in 4% of those married couples with children.

Seven Lego sets are sold every second by retailers worldwide.

80% of all the wine consumed in the U.S. is consumed by 11% of those people who drink alcoholic beverages.

All 50 states in the USA have wineries.

California is largest wine producer in the USA followed by New York State (#2) and Washington State (#3).

Bourbon is the official spirit of the United States by Act of Congress in 1964.

Chicago, Illinois has the most bars per capita of any major city.

Since 2006 in the USA, there have been and continue to be five motor vehicle fatalities every hour, on average.

Every 105 minutes, on average, there is an accident with a motor vehicle and a train at a grade crossing somewhere in the world.

According to a study by the nation's largest auto insurer, the greatest percentage of accidents occur between 3 PM and 6 PM on Fridays.

One-third (33%) of all teenagers will have an automobile accident within one year of obtaining their driver’s license.

According to a Paul Harvey broadcast and various web sources, a study of 40 groups/occupations showed that the WORST drivers are students (#1), followed by medical doctors (#2), then lawyers (#3), architects (#4) and real estate agents (#5). The BEST drivers in this study were homemakers (#5), politicians (#4), pilots (#3), firemen (#2) and the best drivers…………….FARMERS (#1). (I agree. I can’t recall the last time I saw a head on collision that involved two tractors :))

The average life of a cell phone is 18 months.

Walmart is the second largest employer is the U.S. (The U.S. Government is #1.)

Annually, more steel in the U.S. is used to make bottle caps than is used in the manufacture of automobiles. (SOURCE: History Channel – Modern Marvels – STEEL)

The very first VIDEO CONFERENCE telephone call was made in 1927 by President Herbert ‘A chicken in every pot’ Hoover from his office in Washington, DC to New York City.

The very first college football game was played on November 6, 1869 in which Rutgers University defeated Princeton University by a score of 6 to 4 at Rutgers’ campus in New Brunswick, NJ.

The most-lopsided game in the history of college football occurred on October 7, 1916 when the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets defeated the Cumberland College (now University) Bulldogs of Tennessee by a final score of 222 to 0.

The very first televised football game, pro or college, took place September 30, 1939 when the Fordham University Rams of New York defeated the Waynesburg College (now University) Yellow Jackets of Pennsylvania by a score of 34-7.

The average length of a player’s career in the NFL is 3 ½ years.

“Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud” is the brand name of the ONE and ONLY rubbing mud that is used by ALL major and minor league baseball teams and some colleges to rub up baseballs to remove the new ball shine/sheen before games. No other mud will do. It is ‘harvested’ from a secret location in a New Jersey tributary of the Delaware River.

The honeybee is the only insect that produces food for humans and is directly responsible for approximately 1/3 of our crop bearing plants.

The only venomous WATER snake in the U.S. is the Cottonmouth (aka Water Moccasin) that is indigenous to the deep south. It got its name from the fact that the inside of its mouth is as ‘white as cotton.’

The official language of Brazil is Portuguese

80% of all the lead used in the USA is contained in car batteries

James A. Garfield, one of four U.S. Presidents who was assassinated (in 1881), often entertained his houseguests with his parlor trick of SIMULTANEOUSLY writing classic Greek with his right hand and writing in classic Latin with his left hand. (Don’t try this in your home.)

The ‘black boxes’ in commercial airplanes are orange.

21% of all American households own FIVE pets or more (60% of households own at least one pet.)

American women, on average, spend 55 minutes a day getting showered, dressed, and groomed.

Diners Club issued the very first credit card in 1950 but it was not plastic. It was printed on heavy cardstock. BankAmerica issued the first bank credit card, BankAmericard (now VISA), in 1958.

1 in every 100 American ADULTS is now in jail or prison (91% are male and 9% female).

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