旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴커 � Little Known Facts! � 쳐컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴캑 � * On the average day in the U.S. (according to The National Center for � � Health Statistics,) 6,567 couples are married, and 3,197 are divorced! � � * EVERY day, AT&T processes approximately 75,000,000 calls. � � * Your risk of being robbed is the greatest in Washington DC, where the � � risk is approximately DOUBLE that of California! � � * The flu, Influenza kills about 70,000 Americans every year. � � * 12% of the top executives in America never went to college. � � * For 186 days each year, the sun is not seen at the North Pole. � � * In 1915 the average family income in the US was $687 per year. � � * A thousand TONS of meteor dust falls to Earth every day. � � [All in my house I think :)] � � * If all the blood vessels in a single human body were stretched end to end� � they would form a rope capable of going around the world. � � * In 1 second 6,242,000,000,000,000,000 electrons pass any given point in � � an electrical current. � � * The Sun is 3,000,000 miles closer to Earth during Winter than summer. � � * 47 Bibles are sold or distributed every minute of each day. � � * 1 out of every 13 adults over age 20 in the U.S. is an alcoholic. � � * All the world's gold would fit into a single block only 18 cubic yards. � � * Roughly � of the people in the world live in China. � 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴켸 旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴커 � More Little Known Facts! � 쳐컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴캑 � * In 1946 Hawaii had people and houses washed out to sea by a Tsunami. � � The tsunami is a catastrophic ocean wave caused by an earthquake under- � � water. The earthquake that caused this tsunami happened five hours � � before hitting Hawaii in Aleutians, some 2,300 miles away. � � * The German ship Wilhelm Gustloff was torpedoed in the Baltic Sea. It � � made the loss of lives on the Titanic look small - 8,000 people drowned. � � * During the ice age, nearly 30% of the land on earth was covered with a � � thick layer of ice. � � * To make a pound of honey a bee must collect nectar from 2 million flowers� � * There are, according to the U. S. government, 28,000 different types of � � diets. The oldest diet is fasting. � � * In 1615, William Baffin went within 800 miles of the North Pole - it was � � 250 years before anyone got nearer. � � * Thomas Edison had a collection of 5,000 birds � � * Some dinosaurs were as small as a chicken. � � * Ben Franklin invented the rocking chair. � � * Freud had to be accompanied on any train trips because he never learned � � to read a timetable. � � * Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel but turned it down. � � Einstein said, "I have no head for human problems." � 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴켸 旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴커 � Little Known Facts About America! � 쳐컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴캑 � * Paul Revere, though a great silversmith failed at copperplate engraving. � � He was poor in artistry on copper and did that work only when financially� � hard up. � � * Charles Carroll, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence � � was the last survivor - he died at age 95. He also died one of the � � country's wealthiest man. � � * The Declaration of Independence was printer by a woman, Mary Katherine � � Goddard - she distributed the first edition to the first commissioned � � Congress in January 1777. � � * The first U.S. Chief Justice, John Jay, bought slaves then freed them. � � * Alexander Hamilton wanted the country to be "The united state of � � america," having no individual states. � � * While president, George Washington and John Adams paid protection money � � to pirates in the Mediterranean Sea several millions while the Congress � � debated starting a navy. � � * When George Washington died, it is said that British ships in the English� � Channel fired a twenty gun salute. � � * The first lottery was in Virginia in 1826 - the first person to develop � � the lottery was Thomas Jefferson - he was flat broke at age 83 and needed� � the cash. The lottery was not successful. Tom died owing $107,000. � 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴켸