Factoids


Since 1934, only one legally owned machine gun has been used in a murder, and a law enforcement officer committed that crime.


In the U.S., ten times more people are killed by police cars than by police guns.


As the first US military motorcycles, Harley Davidsons were used to chase the infamous outlaw Poncho Villa - who escaped on an Indian motorcycle.


Only 26% of American households now fit the stereotype of a married couple with children.


If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.


2 out of 3 step-families end in divorce.


Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.


The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.


Only 4% of the 40 million tons of salt produced in the US each year is eaten. The rest is used in the over 14,000 other ways man has found to use salt.


A typical modern large passenger jet contains at least 150 miles of wiring.


Of all known viruses, small pox is physically the largest and contains the most complex DNA sequence.


An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.


In Chinese, the words for crisis and opportunity are the same.



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