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  • Alcoholics are twice as likely to confess a drinking problem to a computer than to a doctor, say researchers in Wisconsin.
  • 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!
  • Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
  • The Mayan calender, the most accurate in the world, ends in the year 2012.
  • A telephone signal travels a 100,000 miles per second.
  • One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
  • There’s 31,622,400 seconds in a leap year.
  • Scientists have identified and described about 1.4 million species of an estimated ten to 100 million on earth.
  • Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
  • 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.
  • Plymouth Rock weighs seven tons.
  • America once issued a 5-cent bill!
  • Scientists estimate up to 20 percent of the world’s plant and animal species may be extinct by the year 2000.
  • During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants!
  • A one degree rise in temperature equals a 2% increase in peak electricity consumption.
  • 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!
  • There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
  • A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
  • 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.
  • In the White House, there are 13,000 knives, forks and spoons!
  • The odds of a mother having twins are 90 to 1.
  • No piece of square dry paper can be folded in half more than 7 times!
  • Right now, this very second, 70% of the people driving on U.S. highways are speeding.
  • Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
  • In the U.S. the average bride is 21 years old, the average groom is 23.
  • There are 74 lobbyists for every one senator in Washington D.C.
  • The word electricity derives from the Greek word “elektron” meaning amber.
  • The Greeks noted that rubbing amber produced a static charge.
  • 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.