RANDOM TIDBITS

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RANDOM TIDBITS  

The temperature of Earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60

feet down.  

Afternoon temperatures on Mars go up to about 80 degrees in some

areas, and down to -190 degrees F at night.  

The average human eye can distinguish about 500 different shades of

gray.

The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota is the size of 78 football

fields -- 9.5 million square feet. Bloomington and Minneapolis are the

two farthest north latitude cities to ever host a World Series game.

The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. The concrete in it will

not even be fully cured for another 200 years.  

England's Stonehenge is estimated to be 1500 years older than Rome's

Colosseum.  

If any of the heads on Mt. Rushmore had a body, it would be nearly

500 feet tall

Sweetbread is neither sweet, nor bread. It is a dish made up of the

pancreas or the thymus gland of a calf or lamb.  

The fungus called truffles can cost $800 to $1,500 per pound. They

are sniffed out by female pigs, which detect a compound that is in

the saliva of male pigs as well. The same chemical is found in the

sweat of human males.  

The largest item on any menu in the world is probably the roast camel,

sometimes served at Bedouin wedding feasts. The camel is stuffed

with a sheep's carcass, which is stuffed with chickens, which are

stuffed with fish, which are stuffed with eggs. 

The ingredient in poison oak that makes you itch is called urushiol oil.  

Cicadas are related to aphids, not grasshoppers, and look more like

large flies than grasshoppers.  

The smallest horse in the world is 'Black Beauty', a dwarf miniature

horse. Black Beauty is only 18 1/2 inches tall. She was born in 1996

in Kitrell, North Carolina.

Today, more than 95 percent of paper is made from wood cellulose.  

Two new trees are planted for every one tree harvested in the United

States.  

In 1690, the first U.S. paper mill was built at Germantown, Pennsyl-

vania by William Rittenhouse.

A single piece of paper may contain new fibers as well as fibers which

have already been recycled. Papermaking fibers can typically be

recycled 5-7 times before they become too short to be recycled again.  

If all morning newspapers read around the country were recycled,

41,000 trees would be saved daily and 6 million tons of waste would

never end up in landfills.  

In the year 1900, the U.S. Paper industry produced an estimated 14

thousand tons of paper a day. Today's U.S. Paper industry produces

over 250 thousand tons of paper and paperboard every day.

There is no separation between us and God; he is the ground of our being