I love finding all these trivial oddities, so here is a collection of interesting but usless trivial facts, unusual information and otherwise extraordinary bits of knowledge.
Every clock in Pulp Fiction shows 4.20 pm.
It's estimated that at any one time, around 0.7% of the worlds population is drunk.
Only 3% of the worlds water is fresh (the rest being salty) and of that only 0.3% is available for us to use/drink.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise, except for the windmills in Ireland.
Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't digest itself.
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
And lastly, here's the perfect excuse to do it because everyone else is...... every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate.
Anyone for a Snickers bar?
This info thanks to a local real estate news letter.
Well chow for now
Joe
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