Interesting Facts

I was checking out a web site and found this information:

> California has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named "Jesus Christ."

> In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person

> Arizona was the last of the 48 adjoining continental states to enter the Union.
> Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote in 1869. - go Wyoming!!

> Austin, Texas has the highest percentage of college graduates, 31 percent. Newark, New Jersey has the lowest, 6 percent. - would've never thought

> No matter where you stand in Michigan, you are never more than 85 miles from a Great Lake

> In 1997, Michigan became the 16th state to allow the blind to hunt. - beware, beware!!

> The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as needed because when it was built the state of Virginia still had segregation laws. - never thought of that...

> In Frackville, Pennsylvania a woman filed for divorce because her husband insisted on "shooting tin cans off of her head with a slingshot."

> Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal. - never underestimate the larger head people!!

> Walt Disney was afraid of mice. - M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E, Mickey Mouse - talk about getting over your fears!

> Sir Isaac Newton was only 23 years old when he discovered the law of universal gravitation. - let no man despise your youth!!

> The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.

> Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. - James 3

> Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do. - ACK!! I'm left handed!!

> It takes the stomach an hour to break down cow milk. - is that good or bad?

> During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.

> Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.

> Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. - not for me, so I don't use it at all

> Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 m) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. - ewww!

> It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term "drowning" refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.

> Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.

> The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

> The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. - wish all wars could be this short

> Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older. - talk about producing fruit in your old age!

> Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning - AMEN, try it next time you need to stay awake for that long drive!

> If you lock your knee while standing long enough, you will pass out - Ushers beware!

> The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer. - does this say anything

> According to the Guiness Book, the fastest restaurant in the world serves the client's food within 13 seconds after the order is made. The name of the restaurant is Karne Garibaldi and is located in Guadalajara, Mexico.

> Most people have an IQ in the 90 - 109 range. You're considered a genius if your IQ is 132 or above. Chris Langan has an IQ of 195, the highest known IQ in the US. He started talking at 6 months and by age 4 could read and comprehend books. His IQ puts him in the same class as Sir Isaac Newton and Michelangelo. He's in his mid-forties, and he works as a part-time bouncer at a bar and lives in a one-room house on $6,000 a year.
> William James Sidis had the highest ever known IQ estimated at between 250 and 300. At eighteen months he could read The New York Times, at two he taught himself Latin, at three he learned Greek. By the time he was an adult, he could speak more than 40 languages and dialects. He spent most of his life wandering from one menial job to another. - what does that tell us...time to read Ecclesiaties(sp?)

> The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets. - WHAT!!!

I don't know how much of this stuff is actual fact...but it certianly is interesting!