1. Life span: A butterfly lives for about 6 months
2. Amazing fact: 20% of the people in human history who lived beyond age 65 are still alive today.
3. Military spending: Among other things, the U.S. military operates 234 golf courses
4. The heaviest dog on record was a St. Bernard that weighed 310 pounds.
5. Where does the word condom come from? Dr. Charles Condom (1630-1685)
6. There are an average of 178 sesame sees on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
7. 90% of Hallmark cards are purchases by women.
8. At this moment, nearly 2,000 thunderstorms are taking place around the world.
9. Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his 1950 book, If I Ran the Zoo.
10. The largest toy distributor in the world is not Toys R Us or Wal-Mart - it's McDonald's.
1 comment:
MSN:
Now those are things I had absolutely NO idea about...
Interesting facts...every one of them.
(maybe we could sell off some of those golf courses to reduce the deficit?)
And I don't wanna know WHO counts those sesame seeds...(probably an overpaid gov't worker)
:)
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