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A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
A bolt of lighting can strike the earth with a force as great as 100 million volts.
A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats 9,192,631,770 times a second.
A creep is a metallurgical term for when something that is normally very strong bends because of gravity. This happens to many metals at high temperatures, where they won't melt but they will creep.
A cubic mile of fog is made up of less than a gallon of water.
A device invented as a primitive steam engine by the Greek engineer Hero, about the time of the birth of Christ, is used today as a rotating lawn sprinkler.
A downburst is a downward blowing wind that sometimes comes blasting out of a thunderstorm. The damage looks like tornado damage, since the wind can be as strong as an F2 tornado, but debris is blown straight away from a point on the ground. It's not lifted into the air and transported downwind.
A fierce gust of wind blew 45 year old Vittorio Luise's car into a rover near Naples, Italy, in 1980. He managed to break a window, climb out and swim to shore--where a tree blew over and killed him.
A full loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes at least twenty minutes to stop.
A full moon always rises at sunset.
A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.
A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
A large flawless emerald is worth more than a similarly large flawless diamond.
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found on the sun's surface.
A manned rocket reaches the moon in less time than it took a stagecoach to travel the length of England.
A normal raindrop falls at about 7 miles per hour.
A penny whistle has six finger holes.
A rainbow can only occur when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
A silicon chip a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.
A standard grave is 7'8 x 3'2 x 6.
A syzygy occurs when three atronomical bodies line up.
A two-bit moon is in its first quarter.
A wind with a speed of 74 miles or more is designated a hurricane.
About seven million cars are junked each year in the U.S.
According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world.
According to the Texas Department of Transportation, one person is killed annually painting stripes on the state's highways and roads.
All snow crystals are hexagonal.
All the gold produced in the past five hundred years, if melted, could be compressed into a 50-foot cube.
All totalled, the sunlight that strikes Earth at any given moment weighs as much as an ocean liner.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
An enneahedron is solid with nine faces.
An inch of snow falling evenly on one acre of ground is equivalent to about 2715 gallons of water.
Any free moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere because of its surface tension.
Approximately 98% of software in China is pirated.
April is Earthquake Preparedness month. For a little added incentive, consider this- The most powerful earthquake to strike the United States occurred in 1811 in New Madrid, Missouri. The quake shook more than one million square miles, and was felt as far as 1,000 miles away.
At any given time, there are 1,800 thunderstorms in progress over the earth's atmosphere.
At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
Bacteria, the tiniest free-living cells, are so small that a single drop of liquid contains as many as 50 million of them.
Bamboo (the world's tallest grass) can grow up to 90 cm in a day.
Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.
Carolyn Shoemaker has discovered 32 comets and approximately 300 asteroids.
Clouds fly higher during the day than the night.
Construction workers hard hats were first invented and used in the building of the Hoover Dam in 1933.
Did you know you share a birthday with at least nine other million people in the world?
During the time that the atomic bomb was being hatched by the United States at Alamogordo, New Mexico, applicants for routine jobs like janitors, were disqualified if they could read. Illiteracy was a job requirement. The reason: the authorities did not want their trash or other papers read.
Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man, woman and child in the world.
Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
Experts at Intel say that microprocessor speed will double every 18 months for at least 10 years.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not have a full moon.
If you attempted to count the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and six days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
In 1949, forecasting the relentless march of science, Popular Mechanics said computers in the future may weigh no more than 5 tons.
In 1961, MIT student Steve Russell, created SPACEWARS, the first interactive computer game, on a Digital PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) mainframe computer. Limited by the computer technology of the time, ASCII text characters were the 'graphics' and people could only play the game on a device that took up the floorspace of a small house.
Iron nails cannot be used in aok because the acid in the wood corrodes them.
It takes 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
It takes one fifteen-to-twenty-year-old tree to produce seven hundred paper grocery bags.
It takes the insect-eating Venus Flytrap plant only half a second to shut its trap on its prey.
Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds. It is produced by the decomposition of dead plants and animals in the mud.
The Venus's flytrap can eat a whole cheeseburger.
4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.
A 60-minute cassette contains 565 feet of tape.
A coat hanger is forty-four inches long if straightened.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A good typist can strike twenty keys in a second.
A person uses more household energy shaving with a hand razor at a sink (because of the water power, the water pump and so on) than he would by using an electric razor.
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans
A typical double mattress contains as many as two million house dust mites.
A wedding ring is generally exempt by law from inclusion among the assets in a bankruptcy estate. That means that a wedding ring can't be seized by creditors, no matter how much the bankrupt person owes.
According to a market research survey done some time ago, 68% of consumers receiving junk mail actually open the envelopes.
According to one study, 24% of lawns have some sort of lawn ornament.
All hospitals in Singapore use Pampers diapers.
Aluminum is strong enough to support 90,000 pounds per square inch.
An average of 200 million credit cards are used every day in the United States.
Approximately 30 billion cakes of Ivory Soap had been manufactured by 1990.
As of 1983, an average of three billion Christmas cards were sent annually in the United States.
At the height of inflation in Germany in the early 1920s, one U.S. dollar was equal to 4 quintillion German marks.
Avery Laser Labels are named after company founder R. Stanton Avery.
Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.
Each of us generate 5 pounds of rubbish a day; most of it is paper.
Every year, over 8,800 people injure themselves with a toothpick.
Hallmark makes cards for 105 different relationships.
How valuable is the penny you found laying on the ground? If it takes just a second to pick it up a person could make $36.00 per hour just picking up pennies.
If done perfectly, any rubix cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.
If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside, the fit will be snugger around your big toe.
In 1990, there were about 15,000 vacuum cleaner related accidents in the U.S.
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
In every deck of cards, the King of Hearts is sticking his sword through his head. That's why he's often called the Suicide King.
In historic Deerfield, Massachusetts a guide was showing us fireplaces and some old cooking items. One of the items was an iron standing grid that they would slide bread slices into and place in front of the fire. This grid could turn around and the story goes that the women would push it with their toe; originating the term toe stir which eventually became toaster.
In order for a deck of cards to be mixed up enough to play with properly, it should be shuffled at least seven times.
It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breathalyzer to read 0.
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
John F. Kennedy's rocking chair was auctioned off for $442,000.
Ketchup is excellent for cleaning brass, especially tarnished or corroded brass.
Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
Mosquito repellants do not repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they do not know you are there.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
On average, there are 333 squares of toilet paper on a roll.
The first U.S. coin to bear the words, United States of America was a penny made in 1727. It was also inscribed with the plain-spoken motto: Mind your own business.
Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.


The average person swallows three spiders annually.



A-1 Steak Sauce contains both orange peels and
raisins.





Beaver Cleaver's locker number was #9

The most collect calls are made on Father's Day.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.





George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.




Americans use over 16,000 tons of aspirin a year.

All elephants walk on tiptoe, because the back portion
of
their foot is made up of all fat and no bone.

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Man. Some of those things are really scary. More than 50% of the people have never made or received a call?

Hm... us teens need to learn.

[Ryan]

Man. Some of those things are really scary. More than 50% of the people have never made or received a call?

Hm... us teens need to learn.

i agree

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John F. Kennedy's rocking chair was auctioned off for $442,000.