Trivia and Amazing Facts

• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

• Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

• On average, the Pentagon uses 666 rolls of toilet paper in one day.

• Orville Wright numbered the eggs that his chickens produced so he could eat them in the order they were laid.

• In the late 1950′s, California surfers invented the skateboard as a means of surfing outside of water.

• “Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

• One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers — they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.

• By recycling 1 ton of paper you save: 17 trees; 6,953 gallons of water; 463 gallons of oil; 587 pounds of air pollution; 3.06 cubic yards of landfill space; and 4,077 Kilowatt hours of energy.

• A man died after being killed by his own gas. His diet had consisted mostly of beans and cabbage and he was sleeping in a room with no ventilation. It appeared that the man died in his sleep from breathing the poisonous cloud that was lurking over his bed. An autopsy showed large amounts of methane gas in his system.

• Today, 62 million newspapers will be printed in the U.S., and 44 million will be thrown away. That means the equivalent of about 500,000 trees will be dumped into landfills this week.

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• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

• The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

• Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don’t seem to have this problem.

• There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

• Michael Anderson Goodwin was sitting on a metal toilet in his jail cell, attempting to fix his small TV set, when he bit into a wire and was electrocuted. Ironically, Goodwin had spent many years awaiting South Carolina’s electric chair on a murder conviction before his sentenced was reduced to life in prison.