Strange but True
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Jacki
20 years ago• Peer to peer programs create 72 percent of Internet traffic.
• "Two Days Ago", by Anthony Johnson, at 467 pages, is the longest book in the English language written without using the letter 'e'.
• Of the 481 glitches so far discovered with electronic voting machines in the Nov. 2 election, 436 favored Republicans, 44 favored Democrats, and 1 favored a Libertarian.
• The Onion, a popular satire newspaper, has been cited by legitimate newspapers as a source more than 50 times.
• 79 percent of college students believe that the French fought against the Native Americans in the French and Indian War.
• Master crossword puzzle maker, Joseph Lynch, left six puzzles in a safety deposit box after his death in 1962. The puzzles remained unsolved, despite widespread publication, until a computer scientist solved them in 32 hours using a super computer.
• At any given moment, there are more individual waves in the Pacific Ocean than people in the world.
• It takes Camel Cigarettes 42 days to make one cigarette from a tobacco leaf.
• Current projectsions show there will be one activated cell phone for every American over the age of 18 by the year 2015.
• There is one Elvis impersonator in Las Vegas for every five tourists that visit Sin City.
• The world's largest tribe of Gypsies lives in southern Virginia.
• 21 percent of bottled water is unprocessed tap water.
• One in 53 New York Times articles require corrections, as compared to one in 143 requiring corrections in the Washington Post.
• Geologists say there is more gold in the crust of the earth than silver.
• Deer can be found on every continent of the world, except Antarctica.
• Five sixths of the worlds countries, covering eight ninths of the world's land mass, never go on daylight savings time.
• By far, most shirts sold in the U.S. are blue.
• More people die from malnutrition than any other cause.
• 32 states have laws excluding horses from public roads, making exceptions for police officers and the Amish.
• The Colorado Business Group, an economic think tank concluded that the optimal size for a corporation is 250 employees.
• Research shows that certain chemicals in eggs, when in a purer form, are hallucinogenic.
• Seven out of 10 people will say "rose" when asked to name a flower.
• The computer mouse was almost called a "dongle" until researchers with Xerox had a last-minute change of heart.
• Crystal Pepsi was the most expensive failed product launch in history.
•ONLY 1 out of every 200 stories submitted to a major publisher is ever published.
• In the NBA finals, no home team has ever won a game during a full moon.
• An ant colony started by a single queen can reach a population of over 1000 in under 48 hours.
• There are more cell phones in Tokyo than in all of Europe.
• The percentage of marriages ending in divorce has increased at least one tenth of a percent every year since 1903.
