Forum: Random Fact Of The Day

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The diameter of the wire in a standard paper clip is 1 millimeter - or about 0.04 inch.

In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans annually.

In 2001, St. Patrick's Day was banned in Ireland because of the scare caused by foot and mouth disease.

Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.

The most popular name for a pet in the United States is Max

The household wrench was invented by boxing heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in 1922.

The first Tupperware item marketed was the seven-ounce bathroom cup in 1945

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

One of the first telephone answering machines was developed in Switzerland during the 1950's. It took three days to install.

American sculptor, Alexander Calder, rigged the front door of his Paris apartment so that he could open it from his bathtub.

The parents of Albert Einstein were worried that he was mentally slow because it took him a long time to learn how to speak.

As I'm posting this early to get ahead for a change, here's a few facts about Lego... Since 1949, the LEGO company, based in Denmark, has produced more than 200,000,000,000 of the plastic elements that make up the Lego System. There are 102,981,500 ways to combine six of the 8-studded bricks...

The average Human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid.

In 1832 the Scottish surgeon Neil Arnott devised water beds as a way of improving patients' comfort.

The practice of exchanging presents at Christmas originated with the Romans.

The revolving door was invented in 1888

There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a chess game.

An attosecond is one billionth of a billionth of a second

There is no mention of Adam and Eve eating an apple in the Bible.

The blueprints for the Eiffel Tower covered more than 14,000 square feet of drafting paper

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

Bamboo (the world's tallest grass) can grow up to 90 cm in a day.

A silicon chip a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.

When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds up to 3,000 miles per hour.

A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight

In the Arctic, the sun sometimes appears to be square.

Until 1990, sausages were still legal tender in East Germany

The first time the word "hell" was spoken on TV was in an original "STAR TREK" episode entitled "City on the Edge of Forever". The exact quote was "...let's get the hell out of here...", spoken by William Shatner.

In France, there's a place called Y.