May 3, 2007

AND THAT'S A FACT!

hawks' eyesight is approximately 50 times better than a human with 20/20 vision. if you multiply this figure by five it becomes 250 time greater

- based on evidence collected from the Hubble Telescope, scientists believe that Ancient Egyptian society was so advanced allowing them to put a man on the moon

- many Africans are so poor they are forced to eat tin cans

- able-bodied people are more likely to have full range of motion than those with physical handicaps

- if harnessed the energy created during a plane crash could light the city of St. Louis for two minutes

- it would take 15 million people holding hands to give the world a giant hug

- the average male thinks about sex 75 times per minute while the average female things about sex four times every hour

- 95% of all dogs found in captivity are thought to be pets

- it takes approximately 10 million North American red ans to equal the weight of the average female African elephant

- the largest piece of paper ever produced was made in China in 100 B.C.E. it was the length of five football fields

- the telephone is considered a modern invention because it captures the human voice

- a violin string vibrates at the same speed as a racecar traveling at top speed

- if I were paid every time you said that I'd be a wealthy man

- thousands of asteroids disintegrate in the earth's atmosphere everyday. the cumulative weight is as much as one million gallons of water, or 10 million pounds

- if each person in Japan flushed the toilet at the same time it would cause an earthquake measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale, which is half the force of the deadliest earthquake on record

- light emitted from the sun has a cangle power of five trillion to the power of seven

- an equine's dulap contains millions of bacteria that serve no known physiological purpose, much like the human appendix. however it is believed that an olympic-sized pool filled with the bacteria could eat through a lead wall five feet by ten feet

- when unraveled the intestine of a grown cow stretches 2,000 miles long, which is the distance between New York and Denver

- psychologists believe that the human brain can be separated into four quadrants representing a specific emotion. they are: lust, sex, erections, and biological impulse

- one out of every 1,000 measurements is correct. the others are very close, but not exact

- by the year 2040 the home computer is expected to be a rational yet argumentative humanoid the size of a pencil tip

- it would take 100 years to eat the largest cheese wheel on the planet. its exact wiethy is unknown, but estimates suggest that it is comparable in size to five jumbo jets

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