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iceteaplease 53M
753 posts
1/5/2008 6:07 pm
Some totally useless information for you

1. A vulture will never attack a human or animal that is moving.

2. About 75% of the people in the U.S. live on 2% land.

3. Adult Northwestern American Grizzly Bears can bite through steel as thick as one half inch.

4. After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.

5. All polar bears are left-handed.

6. Almonds are the oldest, most widely cultivated and extensively used nuts in the world.

7. Al Capone's business card said he was a furniture dealer.

8. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world's garbage annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person.

9. An ant's sense of smell is as good as a Dog's.

10. Abe Lincoln's mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and Ms. Lincoln drank the milk.

11. Americans drink over a billion pounds of coffee every year and around five million bottles of soda.

12. After they are roasted, and when the coffee beans begin to cool, they release about 700 chemical substances that make up the vaporizing aromas.

13. Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza in one day.

14. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.

15. An elephant's trunk contains more than 50,000 muscles.

16. An eyelash lives about 5 months.

17. Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.

18. According to Hammurabi's Code, the penalty for medical malpractice was to cut off the doctor's hands.

19. An Octopus has 3 hearts!

20. An ear of corn always has an even number of rows because of the genetic formula which divides the cells.

21. Americans eat more bananas than any other fruit: a total of 11 billion a year.


Born Again Christians only need to chew, It's those left behind that have to swallow it.


101yaya
(Lila S)
69F
2841 posts
1/5/2008 6:31 pm

hmmmmmmm, very interesting.
I found # 1 & 3 most helpful. Thank you Mr. T.


Kharbor 54F

1/5/2008 6:41 pm

Great info, T! I can actually sleep tonight not that I know how long my eyelashes will live! You crack me up! Blessings!

God's blessings always,
Karen

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
~C.S. Lewis~

Time to say goodbye


Independance
(Patricia )
62F

1/5/2008 7:03 pm

an octopus has three hearts?

Life is an adventure.


iceteaplease 53M
1191 posts
1/5/2008 8:04 pm

So why has this silly post solicited so many comments when a serious one gets a meeger 6 or 7?

Born Again Christians only need to chew, It's those left behind that have to swallow it.


OceanBlue122 56F

1/6/2008 9:38 am

I like this kind of fun-fact info....you made my day, T!!! Cool!!


OceanBlue122 56F

1/6/2008 11:04 am

    Quoting iceteaplease:
    So why has this silly post solicited so many comments when a serious one gets a meeger 6 or 7?
I'm gonna take a stab at you're question here and say because there's no commitment involved!!! No one has to voice a profound or meaningful statement.....just in passing make a comment....it's so much easier.....not mind taxing and is on the happier side of things to boot!!! How's that for an answer, T???


iceteaplease replies on 1/6/2008 1:04 pm:
Well allrighty then

Independance
(Patricia )
62F

1/7/2008 6:58 am

    Quoting OceanBlue122:
    I'm gonna take a stab at you're question here and say because there's no commitment involved!!! No one has to voice a profound or meaningful statement.....just in passing make a comment....it's so much easier.....not mind taxing and is on the happier side of things to boot!!! How's that for an answer, T???
Lisa girl, you hit it right on the nail!

Life is an adventure.