Sunday, August 2, 2009

Fun facts.

I stumble upon last years two years AuSM Dairy.
They had some fun facts on top of each even pages of the dairy.

  1. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
  2. The fortune cookie was inventor in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodle-maker.
  3. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
  4. Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
  5. Men can breastfeed babies.
  6. A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.
  7. Japan is the largert exporter of frog's legs.
  8. The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
  9. After eating to much your hearing is less sharp.
  10. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
  11. The average person will spend 2 weeks of their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
  12. It is estimated that at any one time,0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
  13. In the 40s,the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it Bitch.
  14. There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
  15. 35% of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
  16. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
  17. Coca-cola was originally green.
  18. "Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
  19. A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
  20. Fires on land generally move faster uphill than downhill.

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