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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Did you Know?

Just Some Fun Facts and Trivia!

More than half of the coastline of
the entire United States is in Alaska!
􀂄 Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in
the world located on two continents!
􀂄 Canada has more lakes than the
rest of the world combined. More
than 60% of the world’s lakes are in
Canada!
􀂄 Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the
largest Polish population in the world!
􀂄 A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately
2 teeth every 10 years!
􀂄 Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation
M-1, because it was the first street paved with concrete
anywhere!
􀂄 Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep
􀂄 Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical
cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in
transplant surgery!
􀂄 Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every
minute!
􀂄 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year!
􀂄 The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years
waiting in lines!
􀂄 The average housefly lives for one month!
􀂄 The only two animals that can see behind themselves
without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot!
􀂄 Apples, not caffeine are more efficient at waking you up
in the morning!
􀂄 The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute!
􀂄 Your feet are bigger in afternoon than at any other time
of the day!
􀂄 The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used
a tomato can for a carburetor!