March 2009
8 posts
Loudest Sound
FACT: A pipe organ was the loudest sound that could be made in the year 1600.
Orangutan Warning
FACT: Orangutans warn people to stay out of their territory by belching.
Barcode Gum
FACT: The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
Falling Asleep
FACT: The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Not a Crook
FACT: Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word “criminal.” The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
The Hubble Telescope
FACT: The Hubble Space Telescope weighs 12 tons (10,896 kilograms), is 43 feet (13.1 meters) long, and cost $2.1 billion to originally build.
Barbed Wire
Fact: 203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
Spam
FACT: A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds