Interesting Facts

• The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters
• Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
• Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
• Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
• A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
• Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
• From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size
• A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks
• You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog
• A woman's heart beats faster than a man's
• Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!