January 31, 2006
On this day:

Did you know ...


  1. "One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.

  2. 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

  3. An Average of 259,200 people die every day.

  4. 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.

  5. 315 words in the 1996 Webster's dictionary were mispelled.

  6. 40% of all people who come to a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.

  7. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

  8. At the end of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life", an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.

  9. Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and white worms like fried pork rinds.

  10. Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.


Found at Lethal_T's Cosmic Debris

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