Americans spent $16B on bottled water last year- that's more than was spent on movie tickets or iPods!
24% of the bottled water purchased in America is 're-purified' tap water (water clean enough to drink in the first place) from Coke (Dasani) and Pepsi (Aquafina)!
1 out of every 8 home foreclosures this year was non-owner occupied, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. This means that the people renting an apartment were evicted even though they were paying their rent on time!
More than 1 million homes are expected to enter foreclosure this year -- so that's at least 125,000 renters evicted...
In the 1500s, houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small
animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof.
When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."
The most dangerous animal on the planet is a mosquito.
At the top of the risk list from mosquitoes is malaria. Even after decades of battling against the mosquito carrier, an amazing 40% of the world's population, mostly those living in the world's poorest countries, is still at risk of malaria. The disease causes more than 300 million acute illnesses each year and over a million deaths annually, mainly children under five.
The flea can jump 350 times its body
length (over seven inches high and thirteen inches long). It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
The flea when jumping accelerates 50 times faster than a space shuttle. Without its outer shell it would get smashed by the velocity of the jump.
Dr. Michael Griffin is the current Administrator of NASA. He has seven degrees including Masters degrees in Aerospace Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, and Civil Engineering. He also has an MBA and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering!
As a result, his full salutation is Prof. Dr. Michael Griffin BSc,MSc,MEng,MBA,Ph.D!
The US was the 1st nation to put a man on
the moon.
The USSR had the following:
1st orbital spacecraft,
Sputnik
1st spacecraft to carry an animal (a dog Laika), Sputnik 2
1st spacecraft to reach another celestial body, Luna 2
1st spacecraft to photograph the far side of the moon, Luna
3
1st spacecraft to land safely on another planet, Venera 7
1st manned spacecraft, Vostok 1, which carried the ...
1st human into space (Yuri Gagarin)
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosnt mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the
olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the
rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed
it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed
ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
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