Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Interesting

2. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

5. The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.

7. A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.

10. Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and animals than to other plants.

14. The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year.

17. Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.

19. The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.

20. During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.

21. The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone just knows the first one.

 

22. Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.


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