Some interesting facts - and some you'd perhaps rather not know !
By patootie
@patootie (3592)
January 21, 2007 10:30am CST
New York City uses over sixteen tons of cocaine a year.
Elephants poop fifty pounds a day
Bananas are America¹s number one fruit
The average person uses 57 sheets of toilet paper each day
Half of all bank robberies are on Friday
It takes eight hundred gallons of water to make one hamburger
Humans shed over a hundred pounds of skin in an average life
The caffeine from decaffeinated coffee is sold to drug companies
The total weight of eighteen humming birds is just one ounce
Each cruise ship dumps 35,000 gallons of sewage each day
Around the world there are 100 million undiscovered landmines
In America a billion birds die each year from crashing into buildings
345 cow squirts equals one gallon of milk
Sadly, each minute two people will die in cars
The distance from New York to London equals the circumference of the Moon
During your lifetime you will grow two meters of nose hair
More people are killed by donkeys than in plane crashes each year
Each human swallows seven spiders when sleeping (on average over a lifetime)
On average, WalMart is sued thirteen times every day
Yearly, Americans spend more money on dog food than baby food
The three richest people in the world have more money than the forty-eight poorest countries
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@wolfie34 (26770)
• United Kingdom
22 Jan 07
Wow, some great research done there Toots and some amazing facts, it's so easy to take stuff for granted and how it's made. The fact that cruise ships dumps all that sewage is pretty horrific as do the amount of undiscovered landmines. Thanks for sharing!
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@Serjas (2328)
• India
21 Jan 07
thanks for your info given a +
facts about billgates
1.Bill Gates earns US$250 every SECOND, that's about US$20 Million a DAY and US$7.8 Billion a YEAR!
2.If he drops a thousand dollars, he won't even bother to pick it up bcoz the 4 seconds he picks it, he would've already earned it back.
3.The US national debt is about 5.62 trillion, if Bill Gates were to pay the debt by himself; he will finish it in less then 10 years.
4.He can donate US$15 to everyone on earth but still be left with US$5 Million for his pocket money.
5.Michael Jordan is the highest paid athlete in US. If he doesn't drink and eat, and keeps up his annual income i.e. US$30 Million, he'll have to wait for 277 years to become as rich as Bill Gates is now.
6.If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th richest country on earth.
7.If you change all of Bill Gate's money to US$1 notes, you can make a road from the earth to moon, 14 times back and forth.! But you have to make that road non-stop for 1400 years, and use a total of 713 BOEING 747 planes to transport all the money.
8.Bill Gates is 47. If we assume that he will live for another 35 years, he has to spend US$6.78 Million per day to finish all his money before he goes to heaven.
Last but not the least: If Microsoft Windows' users can claim US$1 for every time their computers hang because of Microsoft Windows, Bill Gates will be bankrupt in 3 years!!!
@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
21 Jan 07
Very interesting facts Patootie! I wish that 100 lb of skin that I have lost, (well because of my age maybe it is only 50 lb now) would show now! I can't wait to share the spider swallowing fact with my daughter...she has a spider phobia! I would hope that the fact that people spend more money on dog food rather than baby food is due to the fact that people are making their own baby food.
@sweetlady10 (3611)
• United States
12 Apr 07
Wow these are amazing and very interesting facts. It is so terrible that cruise ship dumps so much sweage in daily basis. I wonder if they won sometime against Walmart who sued WalMart. Also I wonder about swallowing spiders while sleeping.
Thanks for sharing these facts patootie.
@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
23 Jan 07
there are some very interesting facts there some are hard to believe but I guess someone must have worked them out.
@tarunchutani (139)
• India
23 Jan 07
pretty gud...interesting facts ....one was like tht
an average american child have seen 8000 murders on t.v when he/she passes high school.
@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
4 Feb 07
Gee thanks patootie! I've already got an incredibly bad problem with insomnia, and now I don't want to even TRY to fall asleep because I don't want to swallow 7 spiders! I had hoped for a relaxing time at the coast this summer,but I think I might pass on that trip now, as who in their right mind is going to play in an ocean knowing how much cr@p has been placed in it by cruise ships! I hope you have a lovely day too. *wink*
@Wolfsbayne (314)
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21 Jan 07
Thanks for that, I knew some of them before but some of them were very new and interesting!
