Wednesday, November 3, 2010

10 interesting facts

1. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest


2. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar


3. The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours ( ~11 days) by Randy Gardner in 1965


4. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon


5. The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have ever died

6. Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit


7. Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States


8. Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is Number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union


9. If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all


10. The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph