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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 2, 2005 10:03:25 GMT -5
The time spent deleting SPAM costs United States businesses $21.6 billion annually.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 2, 2005 22:43:43 GMT -5
For every person on earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 3, 2005 5:14:29 GMT -5
Ten years ago, only 500 people in China could ski. This year, an estimated 5,000,000 Chinese will visit ski resorts.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 4, 2005 10:51:26 GMT -5
Mel Gibson has personally earned almost $400,000,000 from his movie "The Passion of the Christ".
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 6, 2005 9:14:52 GMT -5
George Washington spent about 7% of his annual salary on liquor.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 6, 2005 10:11:36 GMT -5
Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn, had six fingers on one hand. She wore special gloves all her life to hide her deformity. She also had three breasts. As a result, much of the population thought she was witch.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 6, 2005 10:16:44 GMT -5
If you disassembled the Great Pyramid of Cheops, you would get enough stones to encircle the earth with a brick wall twenty inches high. Now thats a lot of stone
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 6, 2005 10:45:48 GMT -5
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 6, 2005 11:04:49 GMT -5
A Nigerian woman was caught entering the UK with 104 kg of snails in her baggage.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 6, 2005 21:28:48 GMT -5
A Wisconsin forklift operator for a Miller beer distributor was fired when a picture was published in a newspaper showing him drinking a Bud Light.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 9, 2005 1:35:33 GMT -5
Some dogs can predict when a child will have an epileptic seizure, and even protect the child from injury. They're not trained to do this, they simply learn to respond after observing at least one attack.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 10, 2005 1:15:46 GMT -5
A woman was chewing what was left of her chocolate bar when she entered a Metro station in Washington DC. She was arrested and handcuffed; eating is prohibited in Metro stations.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 10, 2005 2:01:35 GMT -5
The United States has five percent of the world's population, but twenty-five percent of the world's prison population.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 10, 2005 2:39:42 GMT -5
Each year, more people are killed by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 10, 2005 6:48:41 GMT -5
Sports Illustrated magazine allows subscribers to opt out of receiving the famous swimsuit issue each year. Fewer than 1% choose this option.
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