Tuesday, September 30, 2008

something you may not know

1) Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
2) Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
3) Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
4) No word in the English language rhymes with "month".
5) The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.
6) A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
7) A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
8) A beaver can hold it's breath for 45 minutes.
9) The world's smallest independent nation is Vatican City with an area
of .2 square miles (.4 square kilometers).
10) Every year in the United States there are around 700 tornadoes!

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