Here are some random facts...not sure if they are all a 100% true
"if you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point."
Those are just some of them that I liked from the website. It is crazy that 11 empire state buildings stacked on top of each other reaches the bottom of the gulf of Mexico. That is extremely deep. To think that the average person walks around the equator 5 times in their life time, that is a lot of walking. Some of these facts really get you thinking. The random facts are from http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bingbin/ if you wish see more.
Friday, May 8, 2009
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