Did you know?
- In a year, more than 10 people are killed by a vending machine.
- Summer on Uranus lasts 21 years!
- The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
- WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes.
- More than 10% of the world’s salt is used to de-ice American roads.
- Each 5 m.p.h. you drive over 60 m.p.h. is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas.
- It takes 492 seconds for sunlight to reach the Earth.
- On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
- Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime.
- The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
- The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.