Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Awesome facts about cheese!

I am so bored, so i am going to post some interesting facts (even if they are useless) that you never wanted to know! I will add more later! =)
# Yogurt intake among North Americans has quadrupled in the past 20 years.
# A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats 9,192,631,770 times a second!.
# The only man-made structure visible from space is the Great Wall of China.
# If you divide the Great Pyramid's perimeter by two times it's height, you get pi to the fifteenth digit!.
# A piece of paper can be folded no more then 9 times.
# The RAM required to run WordPerfect for Win95 is 8 times the amount needed aboard the space shuttle.
# Whitby has more doughnut shops per capita than any other place in the world.
# The billionth digit of pi is 9.
# The first one-hundred digits of pie are: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097
4944592307816406286208998628034825342117067
# The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life span
# Canada imports approx. 822 Russian-made hockey sticks on an average day
# 97% of Canadians say they would not borrow a toothbrush if they forgot to pack their own
# The largest apple pie ever baked was 40 x 23 feet
# If you look carefully at the picture of Mona Lisa, you will notice a bridge hidden in the background
# 10% of StarTrek fans replace the lenses on their glasses every 5 years whether they need to or not.
# 5%-10% of StarTrek fans may be addicted to the show and suffer withdrawal symptoms if they miss an episode.
# Between 25% and 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
# The sun is NOT the biggest star in the universe.
# The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79cmý
# The revolving door was invented in 1888
# Abo elementary school, built in 1976 in Artesia New Mexico, was the first ever underground school
# The first recorded occurenece of a Tornado was June 10, 1682
# The first umbrellas were used in Windsor Connecticut, 1740
# The first audio CD's appeared in the USA in 1984
# The first audio CD manufactured in the US was Bruce Springstean's 'Born in The USA'
# Toronto, Ontario has approximately 7,000 eating establishments
# 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
# There are 1,355,000 (+/- 1000) Monoliths on Jupiter in 2010: A Space Oddessy (NOT 2001!!)
# The Monoliths reproduce at a rate of one every 2 minutes
# The Monoliths all have proportional sizes of 1x4x9
# Montpelier Vermont is the only state capital without a mcdonalds
# 13 blimps in the world, nine in US
# Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'
# Most common name om world is Mohammed
# It takes a half a gallon of water to make macaroni and a gallon of water to clean the pot.
# The original Ford vehicles had Dodge engines
# The most popular ice cream flavor is vanilla
# The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines
# The average person over fifty will have spent 1 year looking for lost items.
# 78% of cats never travel with their owners
# 44% of hotels allow pets into the rooms
# September 16-21 is Farm Animal Awareness week
# Uranus's orbital axis is tilted 90ø
# The opening day of the Montreal summer Olympics was only 21ø celcious
# The Earth orbits the sun at about 18.5 miles per second
# The surface area of the Earth is 197,000,000 square miles
# The 29,249th digit of pi is a seven
# Mount. Olympis Mons on Mars is three times the size of Mount. Everest
# A golf ball has 360 dimples
# Most toilets flush in E flat
# 2,000 pounds of space dust and other space debris fall on the Earth every day
# Each month, there is at least one report of UFOs from each province of Canada
# 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year
# Approx. 25,200 umbrellas are lost each year on the London transit system
# Approx. 5,600 umbrellas are lost each year on the Toronto transit system
# The Olympic flag pole at the Tokyo Olympics was 49 feet, 10 3/4 inches tall
# 5,200,000 pounds of pickles are consumed each day by Americans
# 1/3 of all Americans flush the toilet while still on it
# There are 333 squares of toilet paper are on a roll
# A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightend
# You can be fined up to $1,000 for whistling on a Sunday in Salt Lake City, Utah
# By the time you reach grade 12, you will have been in school for about 17,000 hours

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I love you but you are so so strange!!!