Welcome to the "did you know" section of my website ,it is full of things that you may did or did not know ,they will not make you richer or help you be more successful with the opposite sex but at least you will know after you have been here .enjoy
DID YOU KNOW........................
1.there are 9 billion animals slaughtered every year in america.
2.there are 8 guns per head of people in the USA .
3.65% of the grain grown in the USA is used to feed livestock.
4.in the USA agriculture lose 1inch of topsoil per year.
5.two thirds of the world is third world.
6.two thirds of the population lives on less than a dollar a day.
7 stress kills the equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every twenty minutes in the USA (for you who have not flown it is approxomately 250 people).
8 In florida USA 1200 farms were lost to developement.
9.Americas largest export ,is military hardware.
10.one in three americans cannot read or write.
11.three largest commodities traded on the globe ...COFFEE,SOY,and of course OIL.
12.I.B.M invented the first computerised system and was used to sort out execute,numerically categorise jews ,for mass genocide .
13.all the gas used to exterminate jews was produced by an American company called Farber Chemicals.
14.there is one attorney for every seven adult americans
15.Volkswagen is german for peoples car and the name was invented by none other than adolf hitler.
16.adolf hitler was and artist.
17.52% of americans are overweight.
18.a combine harvester can harvest enough wheat in one hours to make 60,000 loaves of bread.
19. it takes one acre of coca leaves to produce one kilo of cocaine..
20.an averge of one person is killed per every kilo of cocaine produced....(facts supplied by national geographic).....
21. for every kilo seized...one ton slips through..(national geographic)..
22. great britain owns 16% of the USA..
23.360'000 people are born every day on the planet.
24.every three seconds one child dies of hunger.
25.30,000 children die every day from hunger.
26. for every scottish cow they are subsidised 12,000 pounds per year.
27. exxon made $1,287 per second in 2007 .
28....32 american companies were involved in the holocaust.
29.the Coca Cola company uses approx one millions galllons of water an hour.
30. UK consumes half a million tons of chocolate per year
31.Afghanistan produces 90% of the worlds opium.
32.one third of afghanistans GDP (1.3 billion dollars) comes from opium.
33.every fifteen minutes an area the size of a football field is destroyed in the brazillian rain forest.
34.more people are killed in religious conflict than in all wars combined in the world .
35.at any given time there are approx twenty five wars taking place on the planet everyday.
36.wars create more millionaires than any other business on the planet.
37.worldwide pornography related businesses gross over one trillion dollars annually.
38.walt disney corporation grosses more than $250 million per year in the pornography sales.
39. every day one plant,one animal,becomes extinct..
40.there are 252 chemical products in one cigarette.
41.at any given time there are approximately one million people flying in the air in the USA.
42.Elvis Presley gave away 98% of his fortune.
43.there are over 900.000 people in jail in the USA.
44.there are 9000 taste buds on the tongue.
45.it takes 8 tons of grain to produce 1 ton of beef.
46.1 in 9000 children are born albino.
47.mandain is the most commonly spoken language on the planet .
48.bees pollenate fruit and vegetables ,and they creat a total of 800 million pounds in sales in the uk.
49.it takes 43 muscles to frown.
50.charles aznavour the famous french singer ,was actually armenian.
51.it took michael angelo 4 years to paint the sistene chapel.
52.you shed enough skin in a lifetime to fill eight bags of flour.
53.in scotland every two minutes someone has a heart attack.
54.oral-b was the first toothbrush used in space on appollo 11 mission.
55.the lifespan of a dollar bill is 18 months.
56. the average american home has 3.5 gallons of hazaredous materials.
57.every second 2 barbie dolls are sold in the world
58.it costs 3 cents to make a dollar bill.
59.an office desk has 400 more times bacteria than a toilet seat.
60.barbies real name is barbara millicent roberts.
61.there are 15 murders every second in the USA.
62.a dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
63.the average home creates more pollution than a car.
64.over 100.000 sea animals are killed every year due to plastic bags.
65.over20million blublocker sunglasses have been sold since their debut in 1986 they now come in 100 diffrent styles.
66 .over half the textile fibres used i the world today is cotton.
67.indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
68.some tooth paste and deoderants contain the same chemical compounds found in ant-freeze.
69.teflon is the slipperiest material in the world.
70.stannous flouride which is the cavity fighter in toothpaste,is made from recycled tin.
71.the WD in WD-40 stands for water displacer
72.the average north american car contains 300 pounds of plastic.
73.the first toilet being flushed in a movie was PSYCHO
74.the name WD-40 was named because it took 40 attempts to make the water displacing substance
75.the typical pencil can draw a line 35 miles long.
76.the word cotton derives from the arabic word qutun.
77.there are 200 parts in the typical telephone.
78.wal-mart sells more apparell than all stores combined.
79.A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats 9,192,631,770 times a secon
80. the only man made structure visble from space is the great wall of china
81.a piece of paper can be folded no more than 9 times
82.the RAM required to run wordperfect for windows 95 is 8 times the amount needed aboard the space shuttle
83.whitby has more doughnut shops per capita than any other place in the world
84.Canada imports approx 822 russian made hockey sticks on an average day
85.40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute
86.it takes half a gallon of water to make macaroni and a gallon of water to clean the pot
87.the surface area of earth is 197,000,000 sq miles
88.2,000 pounds of space dust and other space debris fall onto the earth everyday
89. a golf ball has 360 dimples
90.the average person over fifty will have spent over one year looking for lost items.
91.40,000 americans are injured by toilets each year .
92.approximately 25,200 umbrellas are lost each year on the london transit system.
93.a coat hnager is is 44 inches long when it is straightened.
94.it is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in california.
95.the average computer user blinks 7 times a minute/
96.the average womens handbag weighs between 3 and 5 pounds.
97.the queen elizabeth ship burns a gallon of oil to move one foot.
98.3.6 cans of spam are consumed every second
99.americans eat12 billion bananas each year .
100.one year contains 31,557,6000 seconds.
101.the glue on israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
102.there are more plastic flamingos in the US than there are real ones .
103.nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
104.more people die annually from donkies than plane crashes .
105.203 million dollars is spent each year on barbed wire in the USA
106.4,000 people are injured by teapots each year.
107. an elephant weighs less than the tongue of a blue whale.
108.a rat can survive without water longer than a camel .
109.more than half the water used in the USA goes towards meat production .
110.grains consumed by livestock in the USA could feed 800 million people around the world.
111.underage smokers spend roughly 1 billion dollars a year in the USA
112. half of all water in the USA is used in meat production
113. one barbie doll is sold every three seconds around the world
114.every man in switzerland is issued with an assault rifle for millitia duty it is his to keep .
115.there are 6 million swimming pools in the USA.
116.555 children drown each year in swimming pools in the usa.
117.there are 1.5 million abortions every every year in the usa,28 per second.
118.americans spend approimately 1 billion dollars per year on chewing gum.
119.if you took all the waters of the planet and put them into a gallon container...three tablespoonfuls of this would be fresh....one of which all humans have access to...
120 . a human being emits 2lb of carbon dioxide per day.
121. a bar code is scanned 10 billion times a day .
122. 1 gram of fecal matter has more bacteria count ,than the entire population of the planet .
123. on average 1 police officer is killed every hour in america .
124.100 people a day are killed in traffic accidents in the USA .
125.1 in 5 people in china will die from lung disease
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