Friday, July 28, 2006

Some interesting facts that I found on campusbooks.com and from yahoo

·You share your birthday with 9 million others in the world
·You weigh more at sea level than at the top of a mountain
· The city of Los Angeles has three times more automobiles than people
· Chinese is the most spoken language in the world
· Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas
· The average American uses 150 gallons of water per day for personal use
· Mohammed is the most common name in the world
· The first civilization in the world was Sumeria in the year 5,000 BC.
· The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters
· You burn more calories sleeping then watching TV
· The only food that does not spoil is honey
·11% of people in the world are left-handed
·Children grow faster in the spring
·Smelling apples and/or bananas can help you lose weight
·The first MTV video was "Video Killed the Radio Star," by the Buggles
· No word in the English language rhymes with month
· Pigeons have been trained by the U.S. Coast Guard to spot people lost at sea
· The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano
· The tallest man was 8 ft. 11 in
· Chewing gum while peeling onions will prevent you from crying
· A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!
· The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
· The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
· A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
· After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again! · Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings

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