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- The average American eats at McDonalds more than
1,800 times in their life.
- The average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and
jelly sandwiches by the he/she graduates from high school.
- The average company saves over $7,000 for each
employee suggestion that is enacted!
- The average office worker spends 50 minutes a day
looking for lost files and other items.
- The average person spends three years of his or her
life on a toilet.
- The average tastebud lives only 10 days before it
dies and is replaced by a new one.
- The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is
27 feet.
- The Blue Whale's tongue weighs more than an adult
elephant!
- The chemicals indole and skatole, which help to
account for the particular smell of human feces, are used as
ingredients in perfume!
- The cicada, a fly found in Africa, spends 17 years of
its life sleeping; and only two weeks is awake during which mates and
then dies.
- The cruise liner, 'Queen Elizabeth 2', moves only six
inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
- The energy of a discharge of an electric eel could
start 50 cars.
- The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of
water.
- The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000,
in today's money!
- The first person to go over Niagara
falls was Annie
Edson-Taylor. She made the trip in a wooden barrel and survived!
- The first telephone book was one page long and had
only 50 names in it.
- The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is
like a human jumping the length of a football field.
- The G in 'g-string' stand for groin.
- The height of a bowling pin is equal to its
circumference.
- The inventor of Vaseline ate a spoonful of the stuff
every morning!
- The last time American Green cards were actually
green was 1964.
- The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps
planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
- The longest word in the English language with no
vowels is Rhythms!
- The male gypsy moth can 'smell' the virgin female
gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away!
- The most common time for a bank robbery is Friday,
between 9 and 11 a.m. The least likely time is Wednesday, between 3 and
6 p.m.
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