ATTN: Speedminded
A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
If you yelled for over 8 and a half years, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Top Six reasons for being late for work: 1) traffic. 2) oversleeping. 3) procrastination. 4) Chores. 5) Car Trouble. 6) Having Sex.
If you pet a cat 70 million times, you will have developed enough static electricity to light a 60-watt light bulb for one minute.
Car accidents rise 10% during the first week of daylight savings time.
85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S!
An attosecond is one billionth of a billionth of a second.
National Pi Day is March 14, at 1:59. (3/14 1:59)
The billionth digit of pi is 9.
The odds of a mother having twins are 90 to 1.
Right now, this very second, 70% of the people driving on U.S. highways are speeding.
There are 74 lobbyists for every one senator in Washington D.C.
If you counted for 24 hours a day, it would take over 31,000 years to reach one trillion.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Plymouth Rock weighs seven tons.
A one degree rise in temperature equals a 2% increase in peak electricity consumption.
The Mayan calender, the most accurate in the world, ends in the year 2012.
A telephone signal travels a 100,000 miles per second.
There’s 31,622,400 seconds in a leap year.
America once issued a 5-cent bill!
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
In the U.S. the average bride is 21 years old, the average groom is 23.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants!
7% of Americans don’t know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem!
5% of Canadians don’t know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
No piece of square dry paper can be folded in half more than 7 times!
The word electricity derives from the Greek word “elektron” meaning amber.
The Greeks noted that rubbing amber produced a static charge.
Alcoholics are twice as likely to confess a drinking problem to a computer than to a doctor, say researchers in Wisconsin.
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