Dreams
The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds.
Sneezes
A sneeze travels at over 100 miles per hour. Gesundheit!
Nails
Your fingernails grow almost four times as fast as your toenails.
California
California is bigger than eighty-five of the smallest nations in the world.
California
Totaling nearly three million acres, San Bernardino County is the largest county in the entire United States.
California
San Francisco Bay is considered the world's largest landlocked harbor.
Buggy
For every person on earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects.
Queens Life
All of Queen Anne's 17 children died before she did.
Words
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
Names
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Time
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second
Birds
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
Ocean
We know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the bottom of then ocean.
Bless You
A sneeze leaves your mouth a 100 miles per hour.
Lightning
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
Monopoly
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
Dice
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
Longest Train Stretch
The longest straight stretch of railway is in Australia. The part without any curves is 478 kilometres (301 miles) long.
Baby Facts
* Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adult we have only 206 in our bodies. The reason? Some bones fuse together later.
* A newborn baby's head accounts for about one-quarter of it's entire weight.
* According to researchers at the University of Texas, babies like pretty faces better than plain ones.
* A fetus in the womb can hear. Tests have shown that fetuses respond to various sounds just as vigorously as they respond to pressures and internal sensations.
Speaker of the House
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Pizza Facts
* The people of America eat around 350 slices of pizza each second, or 100 acres per day.
* Each year, pizza is a $30 billion industry.
* In the U.S., there are about 61,269 pizza parlors.
* Everyone in the United States eats about 23 lbs., or 46 slices, every year.
* Each year in the United States, 3 billion pizzas are sold.
Einstein Refridgerator
The Einstein Refrigerator is a type of refrigerator co-invented in 1926 by Quick Facts about: Albert Einstein.
Physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity; Einstein also proposed that light consists of discrete quantized bundles of energy (later called photons) (1879-1955)Albert Einstein and former student Quick Facts about: Leó Szilárd
Coffee Consumption
Coffee is the most popular drink worldwide with almost 2 billion cups consumed every day.
Laser Clock Facts
If all goes as planned, a laser-cooled clock named PARCS will be installed on the ISS in late 2004 or 2005. Experts expect it to be the most stable clock ever, keeping time within 1 second every 300 million years (1 part in 1016).
Lifespan of Paper Money
The average life of a dollar bill is eighteen months. Five dollar bills last about fifteen months, with twenties remaining in circulation for two years. Ten dollar bills have about the same lifespan as singles do, and the larger denomination bills can last up to eight years.
$100 Bill Facts
$100 Note Fact Sheet
The vignette on the back of the $100 note is Independence Hall in Philadelphia. There are three people depicted in the engraving. Two (a man and a woman) are in front of the hall close to the building; the third person is a man pictured looking toward the building. There is no record that the man and woman are embracing.
The hands of the clock are set at approximately 4:10. Although the time is not readily identifiable to the naked eye, it may be verified if examined under twenty-fold magnification. There are no records explaining why that particular time was chosen.
Air Force One
The President of the United States flies in a plane called Air Force One. The plane has a bedroom, bathroom, exercise room and an office for the President, and can be re-fueled in the air so that it never has to land to get gas!. Air Force one also has 85 phones, 17 TV's and 238 miles of wiring for all of the needed technology.
Water and Autos
It takes approximately 39,000 gallons of water to produce a domestic automobile including the tires.
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