Random Facts

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January 16, 2005
posted by kyle

• Pound for pound, the average American eats more bread than anything else.

• The average person showers 16 times for every one bath they take.

• Sydney, Australia has the highest percentage of classical music lovers of any city in the world.

• At its present rate of depletion, it would take 210 years to cut down five percent of the Amazon forest.

• The man with the world's largest hands can reach 18 inches from the tip of his thumb to the tip of his pinky.

thats one helluva large hand!!!

Here's some more random facts courtesy of
www.ufotd.com

During your lifetime you will eat 60,000 pounds of food, the weight of six elephants.

You pump enough blood in your lifetime to fill 7 jumbo jets.

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.

A cockroach can live up to a week with out a head!!

During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.

Nici.

To supply the British market in 1994, 3 million cattle, 14 million pigs, 19 million sheep and 670 million chickens were slaughtered for food for 5o million people.

Somebody in Britain becomes vegetarian every two minutes

The average meat eater is responsible for the deaths of approximately 760 chickens, 46 Turkeys, 29 Sheep, 20 pigs, 15 ducks, 7 rabbits, 5 cows and more than 1000 fish.

The Vegetarian Society said that 117 year old Canadian Marie-Louise Febronie Meilleur was living proof of the benefits of being a vegetarian. Current research backs up this up ; lifelong vegetarians visit hospital 22% less often than meat eaters and when confined to hospital, spend a shorter time there.