It’s that time again - Friday’s random facts*. If you’re going on a blind date tonight, or even a first date, and the conversation begins to lull you can always say, “Did you know that…”
Excluding tropical rain forests, the place with highest biomass of insects per acre is Baltimore, Md
Shoppers at Wal-Mart are an average of 12 percent heavier than average non-Wal-Mart shopping Americans.
George Bush's official function in his fraternity at Yale was "Foosball Tournament Administrator".
62 percent of Americans said they would "never" eat a snail. 47 percent of those same Americans said they would consider trying escargot if they were in a fancy French restaurant.
23.2 percent of Americans say they never have dreams.
According to a recent paper in the Journal of English Linguistics, the use of abbreviations speed reading by 12 percent, but reduce comprehension by 23 percent.
The average conference call has 5.7 people, lasts 41 minutes and the average distance between the moderator and the participants is 427 miles.
The average rain delay in a major league baseball game lasts 38 minutes.The average teenage text-messager can enter 22 'words' per minute.
Officially, a "nap" becomes a "sleep" after the sleeper has slept for 53 minutes.
*courtesy of gullible.info
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