Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Some things you didn't know you didn't know.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.

Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms
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Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.

There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you have probably never heard of.

Pinocchio was made of pine.

The oldest known vegetable is the pea.

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

Nondairy creamer is flammable.

A newborn expels its own body weight in waste every 60 hours.

It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.