Odd Facts

I got these from a forwarded e-mail. Some of them are just too great not to share. (My commentary in italics.)

• The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
• Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
• Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
• If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
• The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1. (That's a lot of termites.)
• A snail can sleep for 3 years. (I wish I could. I certainly feel like I could sleep that long.)
• No president of the United States was an only child. (I'm sure we will some day--only children weren't very common in years gone by, as they increasingly are.)
• No piece of dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half. (It is true for a letter size sheet, but I haven't tried anything larger yet.)
• Seven percent of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
• Five percent of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem. (These last two facts are very odd... why know someone else's anthem and who bothered to figure this out.)
• Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
• More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones. (Mine's neither.)
• In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals. (We need stricter academic integrity policies and enforcement of them in the US.)
• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. (Am I the only one who reads this and wants to make an imprint of their tongue? And compare it to others'?)
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. (I love the giraffe's pointy black tongue.)
• In a recent survey, Americans revealed that their favorite smell was banana. (Ewwww... it's not mine. In undergrad one day a bottle of isoamyl acetate was broken in front of the air intake for the second and third floors. The whole building reeked like over-ripe bananas.)