• A space station
• A space shuttle
• A permanent base on the moon
• A manned mission to Mars

According to a new study, the inner core of Earth spins nine-thousandths of a second faster than outer layers of the Earth, which may be responsible for the Earth's magnetic field.

If all our brain cells were laid end-to-end, it would be 200 million miles long (from here to the Sun and back!)

This is an average from 2002-2004 -- a number that has been steadily increasing. The report, based on CDC data, also finds that MS, AL, WV, LA, and TN have the highest percentage of obese adults.

"Obesity" is defined by having a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or more. Find out your BMI now!

Alice (56) and Helen (85) Walton share the title of richest woman in America. As daughter and wife of Sam Walton, respectively, they have an estimated net worth of $18 billion each.

Another tidbit about Wal-Mart -- Their sales in one day was larger than the GDP of 36 countries!

By buying locally-produced honey, your body gets small doses of the same pollen that can trigger your allergies. In the same fashion that a vaccine works, by giving your body the honey, allergies may be dramatically reduced! So the closer you live to the beekeeper, the better off you are!

The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS Time.

On August 8, 2005, President Geroge W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This Act changed the time change dates in the U.S. Beginning in 2007, DST will begin on the second Sunday of March, and end the first Sunday of November.

Daylight Saving Time, for the U.S. and its territories, is NOT observed in Hawaii or in most of the Eastern Time Zone portion of the State of Indiana, and the state of Arizona (not the Navajo Indian Reservation, which does observe). Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, due to its large size and location in three states.

In 2004, Fortune named her the 19th richest person under 40.

The gardens, number of slabs of marble, engravings of flowers, even the number of leaves carved and laden with emeralds on each side are perfectly symmetrical. The Queen's tomb is laid exactly in the centre.

The ONLY non-symmetrical part of the Taj Mahal is the King's tomb, as it was not planned to be placed there, but in a replica of the Taj to be built in black marble across the river. Since the Prince arrested his father, the plan to build the second Taj was cancelled, and the King was buried next to the Queen's tomb, thereby breaking the symmetry of the Taj. Still considered the most amazing of the seven wonders, the Taj has half the verses of the Quran inscripted on it; the other half were to be in the second monument.

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America Online (AOL) says that at any time between 1/3 and 2/3 of its server capacity is taken up by spam.

G-rated films account for only 3% of the total films made in a typical year. 69% of films are R-rated.

As an aside, box office sales typically account for only 20% of a film's earnings. Other sources are merchandising, DVD sales, video rentals.

Every second, the Sun converts about 700 million tons of hydrogen to 695 million tons of helium and 386 billion billion megawatts of energy (see also e=mc² fact). It's been doing this for about 4.5 billion years and will keep going for another 5 billion years before growing to a red giant and gobbling up the Earth.

At one point, 9% of Americans were on the Atkins diet.

Each tree produces about 40 cubic feet of wood every year.

There are over 100,000 children working in dangerous conditions in Ivory Coast alone, the source of 40% of the world's cocoa, according to a US State Department report in 2003. Hazards include harmful pesticides and risk of injury from machetes. In response, there has been talk of a "no child slavery" label requirement for all chocolate manufacturers.