Tuesday's list of little known facts...
 

'Cliffie Notes' - for the attention deficient crowd:


- Wal-Mart's annual income is nearly equal to that of Russia.

- The world's population increases by 237,748 people every 24 hours.

- Lake Mashu, Japan has the world's clearest water. Its transparent to a depth of 136 feet.

- The common housefly only flies at 4.3 miles per hour.

- American soldiers in Vietnam sometimes used Slinkies as radio antennas.

- There are exactly 216 noodles in every can of Campbell's chicken noodle soup.

- The B.F. in B.F. Goodrich stands for Benjamin Franklin.

- 95.7% of all paperwork filed in an average office will never be seen again.

- Exxon spent over $100 million on market research before changing its name from Esso.

- Sheep will not drink from running water.

- Every year over 600 residents of Paris are hospitalized after slipping on dog shit.

- Albert Einstein never memorized his own home phone number.

- Mississippi did not ratify the 13th Amendment (which outlawed slavery) until 1995.

- Fleas jump at 140 times the force of gravity...20 times that of a space shuttle during launch.

- Davey Crocket never wore a coonskin cap (Disney made that up).

- Columbus's ship, the Santa Maria, weighed less than the Titanic's rudder.

- In 75 years, the human heart pumps enough blood to fill an oil tanker 46 times.

- The liquid inside a Magic 8-Ball is a mix of water, anti-freeze and blue dye.

- The average person will forget 80% of what they learned today. (increases to 99.9% if you spend too much time on GFY)

- It takes a Twinkie on average 45 seconds to explode in the microwave.

- It takes an hour and a half to cremate the average adult.

- When threatened, a bombardier beetle can expel a blast of 212F-degree air from its arse.

- At last count, ten countries have the nuclear capability to destroy the world.

- Only a third of the world's population eats with a knife and fork.

- The @ symbol is over 500 years old.

- The flashing light on the Capitol Records Tower spells out HOLLYWOOD in Morse code.

- Junk mail received by Americans in one day could provide enough fuel to heat 250,000 homes.

- Ben & Jerry got their start in 1977 after taking a $5 correspondence course in ice-cream making.

That's a scary thought...

Very cool facts

I'm off to the supermarket

I gotta check this out:1orglaugh

and this

- It takes a Twinkie on average 45 seconds to explode in the microwave.

Yea I forgot everything and I have no idea where my paperwork is...:helpme

aaah useles info :321GFY

Only 1 in 2,497 people have seen a shooting star -- surprising, I would have guessed more people saw them than that.

The average person will forget 80% of what they learned today.

Good to know it's not just me!

"Sheep will not drink from running water"
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..but they will surf gfy!!

I'd have thought it would have been higher. :2 cents:


Then again, how the hell do they get these figures in the first place ??

tell me about it, 90% of the black folks here eat with their hands, it kinda makes sense though coz they usually eat pap instead of bread (ground-maize porridge),
of course when they go out they use knife and forks so it's not that they don't know how

Junk mail as in paper letters?

Fuck yeah!

Email marketing, how many trees does that kill?

Little known? More like totally unknown to me.

And you were expecting what from the thread title? :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

btw...here's one more --> useless <-- bit of info for you (get it?)

Cool facts there! :thumbsup

By the way, here's another useless one..



"THE ASHES OF THE AVERAGE CREMATED PERSON WEIGHS 9 POUNDS."

Reminds me of an incident years ago - I was in a grocery store picking up a few things, and saw an east indian woman in the bulk food section scooping out cherry pie filling with her bare hands from a big plastic barrel and eating it.

As I stood there hardly believing what I saw, a store employee walked over to her and told her the store didn't allow that - and he handed her a plastic ladle. She promptly filled the ladle with more liquid pie filling and raised it to her mouth to continue eating.

I was laughing so hard I think customers halfway across the store could hear me. I turned around and walked right outta the store without buying a thing. Never set foot in the place again after that.

When threatened, a bombardier beetle can expel a blast of 212F-degree air from its arse.

That would be a great defense mechanism for humans :)

Wal-Mart is a republic :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

. . . the mayflower was owned and operated by the amtsel brewing company, wood from the ship was eventually used to build a barn in England, after a blight of dutch elm disease destroyed much of England's forest, and is still standing today . .

It would take dutch oven to a whole new level at least.

here's 2 more

A Boeing 747 can flex it's wings 26 feet before they snap.

All of the brownies used in Ben & Jerry's "Chocolate Fudge Brownie" ice cream are made by Ex Convicts.

here's 2 more

A Boeing 747 can flex it's wings 26 feet before they snap.

All of the brownies used in Ben & Jerry's "Chocolate Fudge Brownie" ice cream are made by Ex Convicts.

Sucks to be the pilot who drew the short straw and got to test that theory out...

well..... NO SHIT!!!

This is some good info to remember next time I'm in Paris. I will definitely be watching where I step from now on! :Oh crap

pretty interesting list, nice post