Facts of the Week 10-18-11
Facts about tea: ~ Multiply your weight by 0.6. That is how much water there is in your body. ~ To thoroughly mix a 52-card deck, it takes seven standard…
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Facts about tea: ~ Multiply your weight by 0.6. That is how much water there is in your body. ~ To thoroughly mix a 52-card deck, it takes seven standard…
Facts about tea: ~ Tea contains half the amount of caffeine found in coffee. ~ The first book about tea was written by Lu Yu in 800 A.D ~ Apart…
~ The potato can be traced back 4,000 years to the Peruvians in South America. ~ The potato was the first food ever to be grown in outer space. ~…
~ Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy. ~ Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason. ~ Cats have over one…
Facts about the human body: ~ Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of mucous. ~ Humans can use sound to sense objects in their area using echolocation.…
~ A moth has no stomach. ~ In one day, a full grown redwood tree expels more than 2 tons of water through its leaves. ~ Crocodiles were around before…
~ Antarctica has an area code. It is 672. ~ There is more than a quarter pound of salt in every gallon of sea water. ~ In the early 1960’s,…
~ Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts indefinitely. ~ Redheads require more anesthesia to ‘go under’ than other hair colors do. ~ Rudyard…
~ A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven. ~ Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined. ~ Astronauts get taller when they are in space.…
~ Washington, D.C. is 68 square miles in area. ~ Greater Washington has the largest percent of adults with advanced degrees (21 percent) in the U.S., more than twice the…