Life facts and facts about lives, from the Random Facts shelf.
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Replacing an electric water heater with a solar model can reduce water heat costs by 50 to 80 percent every year - and over the 20-year life of the equipment, more than 50 tons of carbon dioxide emissions will be displaced.
A single tree in a rainforest can be home to thousands of different creatures.
All clams start out as males; about half decide to become females at some point in their lives.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Talking about synchronicity increases synchronicity
By portraying bogus intelligence as fact and by inventing a relationship
between al-qaeda and Saddam Hussein, Cheney, Bush (& Rumsfeld) led the
charge into Iraq.
Since then Cheney's company Halliburton has gotten over 10 billion dollars
in contracts from the Iraq war despite the fact that audits have shown they
have repeatedly stolen and overcharged the US government and even instituted
accounting methods designed to make funds disappear...
The Carlyle Group is a privately-owned equity firm organized and run by
former members of the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations. Carlyle could lay
claim to only a meager $12 billion in funds in December of 2001. Carlyle's
profits skyrocketed after the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Currently,
Carlyle manages more than $44 billion in 42 different investment funds.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111406R.shtml
Half of all living things live on 6% of the land on the planet, the rain forest. No word on how much this fact changes everyday, but it's safe to say it's an estimate.
The Pacific Giant Octopus, the largest octopus in the world, grows from the size of pea to a 150 pound behemoth potentially 30 feet across in only two years, its entire life-span.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
An average person visits the toilet 2,500 times per year. (6-8 times per day)
People spend at least 3 years of their lives on the toilet.
Seven million cell phones are dropped in the toilet per year.
Americans use a lot more toilet paper than any other country. (7 sheets on average)
People have flushed down the toilet: goldfish, false teeth, socks, underwear, bras, shirts, shoes, mice, hamsters, toy cars, action figures, Barbies, toothbrushes, and whole rolls of toliet paper.
Most toilets flush on an E-flat note.
10,000 times you have to change a baby's diaper until it learns how to go to the bathroom itself.
Men spend 140 days of his life shaving.
Brushing your teeth with the water on wastes 5 gallons of water. Shaving with the water on wastes 15 to 20 gallons.
Females takes 3 times longer than males in the bathroom.
There is a two-foot long bird called the Kea. The kea lives in New Zealand and just loves to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
The 1998 Golden Globe award for Best Picture went to "Saving Private Ryan" beating out favorites such as "Shakespeare in Love" (voted Best Picture in the Academy Awards), "Life is beautiful," & "There's something about Mary"
In 1862, to support the Civil War, Congress enacted the nation's first income tax law. Congress eliminated the income tax in 1872 and it had a short-lived revival in 1894 and 1895.
In 1913 the income tax was brought back and became a permanent part of American life. It provided a seemingly unlimited source of funds to finance ever-growing government, and it gave the government an excuse to pry into every aspect of your life.
The polar bears live only in the Arctic at the North Pole and penguins live only in the Antarctic at the South Pole.