Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Random Facts 9

It takes 345 squirts of milk from a cow's udder to make one gallon of milk.
If takes 2 million visits to 2 million flowers for a honeybee to make one pound of honey.
It takes 50,000 words to use up the lead in one pencil.
It takes 25 tomatoes to make one bottle of ketchup.
It takes one acre of soybeans to produce 82,368 crayons.
If a chain letter were never broken, within fifteen cycles the entire world would have read it.
Wal-Mart's annual income is nearly equal to that of Russia.
65% of American candy brands are over 50 years old.
A housefly flies at about 4.3 mph.
If you freeze candles before you use them, they will burn slower and last longer.
Meteor fact: so far 150 impact craters have been identified on the Earth's surface.
Each year, Americans burn about 200 billion gallons of fuel in their vehicles.
Giraffes were originally known as cameleopards.
The Pacific Ocean holds about 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water.

Uncle John's 18th Edition Fast-Acting Long-Lasting Bathroom Reader, pg. 43, 52, 75, 76, 113, 138, 139, 157, 461, 464