Interesting Stuff Part 3
166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the United
States.
1959's A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be
produced on Broadway.
2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.
203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next
hour.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on
them and photocopying their buttocks.
25% of a human's bones are in its feet.
259200 people die every day.
315 words in the 1996 Webster's dictionary were mispelled.
27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless
existential hell."
3% of all mammals are monogamous
315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
315 words in the 1996 Webster's dictionary were mispelled.
4 tablespoons of ketchup has about the same amount of nutrition as a ripe
tomato.
40% of all people who come to a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
43.7% of all statistics are made up right on the spot
48% of astronauts experience motion sickness.
52% of Americans drink coffee.
55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball games each year
67 million pounds of pesticides and about 3 million tons of fertilizer
are used annually on lawns in the US.
78 rpm albums, used prior to 1948, were only capable of recording for
four minutes. It wasn't until later that year that Columbia Records
introduced 33 rpm albums capable of playing 23 minutes per side.
80% of animals on earth are insects.
80% of arrested criminals are male.
Psalm 98:8 Let the rivers clap their hands, the mountians shout with them
for joy.