More Useless Facts

[Mayhem]

Each of us generates about 3.5 pounds of rubbish a day, most of it paper.

Women manage the money and pay the bills in 75% of all Americans households.

A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.

It has NEVER rained in Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile.

It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

An eighteenth-century German named Matthew Birchinger, known as "the little man of Nuremberg," played four musical instruments including the bagpipes, was an expert calligrapher, and was the most famous stage magician of his day. He performed tricks with the cup and balls that have never been explained. Yet Birchinger had no hands, legs, or thighs, and was less than 29 inches tall.

Daylight Saving Time is not observed in most of the state of Arizona and parts of Indiana.

Ants closely resemble human manners: When they wake, they stretch & appear to yawn in a human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.

Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.

Count the number of cricket chirps in a 15-second period, add 37 to the total, and your result will be very close to the actual outdoor Fahrenheit temperature.

One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year. Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.

Butterflies taste with their hind feet.

Only female mosquito's' bite and most are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.

In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

The human tongue tastes bitter things with the taste buds toward the back. Salty and pungent flavors are tasted in the middle of the tongue, sweet flavors at the tip!

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

[TmT]

One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year. Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.


:ooo Say what.... now I read all of'em and I can pretty much agree....but what in carnation or who in carnations came up with this statistic....... I say Bull Crap... pure BS.... someone plez explain this.... :ooo

[IndianLover]

 :ooo Now that was interesting.. and I wish I could live that cheap geez.

[Gwenna]

One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year. Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.


:ooo Say what.... now I read all of'em and I can pretty much agree....but what in carnation or who in carnations came up with this statistic....... I say Bull Crap... pure BS.... someone plez explain this.... :ooo

It's quite simple really.  Not every country's currency is valued as high as the dollar.  $75 can go a long way in a third world country.  For example:  $75.00 is equal to 168,000.00 Columbian pesos.   ;::