Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Another installment of enlightenment

1. The oldest standing building in Australia is Captain James Cook's house, brought over from England brick by brick
2. Americans eat on average 18 acres worth of pizza every day.
3. The two lions in front of the New York Public Library are currently named Patience and Fortitude.
4. "Beelzebub", another name for the devil, is Hebrew for "Lord of the Flies".
5. The Amazon River enters the Atlantic with so much volume that fresh water exists more than a hundred miles from the mouth of the river.
6. Cranberry is the only flavor of Jello that is made from real fruit, not artificial flavoring
7. The average man sweats 2 1/2 quarts every day
8. The average human body contains enough: iron to make a three inch nail, sulfur to kill all fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900 pencils, potassium to fire a toy cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap, phosphorous to make 8 match heads, and water to fill a ten gallon tank
9. Over 96% of American households purchase bananas at least once each month.
10. A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral.

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