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How about these?

* Einstein tutored a girl in math for some homemade cookies.

*There was no grass during the time of the dinosaurs. Grass evolved from bamboo-like plants only 24 million years ago.

*An embezzler in Thailand, sentenced to 865 years in jail, was lucky enough to get his sentenced reduced to just 576 years.

*(In relation to the Virgin Mary Grill Cheese) In New Mexico, over eleven thousand people have visited a tortilla chip that appeared to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it. And in 1983, a Japanese artist, Tadahiko Ogawa, made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of ordinary toast.

*Real diamonds can be made out of peanut butter. (Whoa... Where did my PB&J go?)

*Mosquitos prefer children to adults, blondes to brunettes. (Wierd, eh?)

*More people have a phobia of frogs then of rats.

*(For you dieters) Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories per hour.

*Apples are more efficient than coffee at keeping people awake in the morning.

And the last one...

*Phobatrivaphobia is the fear of trivia about phobias...

It's a strange place we live in, folks!

Edited: Atiyana on 26th Nov, 2004 - 3:45am

FACTS Interesting

1/ The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (metres per second - that is equal to 186,287.49 miles per second).

2/ It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun's surface to the Earth.

3/ October 12th, 1999 was declared "The Day of Six Billion" based on United Nations projections.

4/ 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

5/ The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.

6/ Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.

7/ When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometres away in Australia.

8/ The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.

9/ Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.

10/ Every year lightning kills 1000 people.

11/ In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .

12/ If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.

13/ Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.

14/ The Earth is 4.56 billion years old...the same age as the Moon and the Sun.

15/ The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.

16/ Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.

17/ When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.

18/ Webhosting.info have estimated that the United States has over 22,000 web hosting companies and over 25 million domain names!

19/ If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.

20/ The Australian billygoat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.

Interesting FACTS UFO & Writing Art Education Sciences

Well I don't have a slew of facts to share like most others have done already, but here is one that I learned about the other day. A giraffe has a tongue that is up to 18 inches long. It uses it's tongue to rip leaves off branches for consumption. It also uses it's tongue to clean it's nose when unwanted visitors like tree ants decide to visit.
In comparison, if a human had such a tongue, one would be able to clean the top of one's head, one's nostrils and one's ears. Yuck!