Trivia for Squiggle #XLIX
Yay! I got TFS out on time today! It's a lot of random shite...as usual...hehehe
1201. A Dutch court ruled that a bank robber could deduct the 2,000 Euros he paid for his pistol from the 6,600 Euros he has to return to the bank he robbed.
1202. The time spent deleting SPAM costs United States businesses $21.6 billion annually.
1203. 60.7 percent of eligible voters participated in the 2004 presidential election, the highest percentage in 36 years. However, more than 78 million did not vote. This means President Bush won re-election by receiving votes from less than 31% of all eligible voters in the United States.
1204. La Paz, Bolivia has an average annual temperature below 50 degrees Fahrenheit. However, it has never recorded a zero-degree temperature. Same for Stanley, Falkland Islands and Punta Arenas, Chile.
1205. A Wisconsin forklift operator for a Miller beer distributor was fired when a picture was published in a newspaper showing him drinking a Bud Light.
1206. G-rated family films earn far more money than any other rating. Yet only 3% of Hollywood's output is G-rated.
1207. More people study English in China than speak it in the United States of America (300 million).
1208. More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products that are made for right-handed people.
1209. For every person on earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects.
1210. There are 2,000,000 millionaires in the United States.
1211. 1.5 million Americans are charged with drunk driving each year.
1212. A Georgia company will mix your loved one's ashes with cement and drop it into the ocean to form an artificial reef.
1213. The Washington Times newspaper is owned by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
1214. The busiest shopping hour of the holiday season is between 3:00 pm and 4:00 pm on Christmas Eve.
1215. In 2002, women earned 742,000 bachelor's degrees. Men earned only 550,000 during the same year. The difference is growing so large that many colleges now practice (quietly) affirmative action for male applicants.
1216. Most of the deck chairs on the Queen Mary 2 have had to be replaced because overweight Americans were breaking them.
1217. The day after President George W. Bush was reelected, Canada's main immigration website had 115,000 visitors. Before Bush's re-election, this site averaged about 20,000 visitors each day.
1218. Only 30% of stolen artwork worth more than $1,000,000 each is recovered.
1219. The typical American child receives 70 new toys a year, most of them during the holiday season.
1220. 90% of Canada's 31,000,000 citizens live within 100 miles of the U.S. border.
1221. Costco is the largest wine retailer in the United States. Annual wine sales are about $700 million.
1222. The worst air polluter in the entire state of Washington is Mount St. Helens.
1223. There are less than 100 surviving American World War I veterans.
1224. A ten year old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new, because of the -ahem- debris which is absorbed through the years. That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and their decaying bodies), mold, millions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand and a lot of perspiration, of which the average person loses a quart per day. Good night!
1225. Billboard magazine has recently launched a top 20 chart of cell phone ringtones.
Carmen Naranjo: Do you know why we clink glasses before drinking?...It's so that all the five senses are involved. We touch the glass. We smell the drink. We see its color. We taste it. Hearing is the only sense that doesn't participate unless we create it.
The previous post's quote was from "Dogma"
Bartleby = Ben Affleck, Loki = Matt Damon
1201. A Dutch court ruled that a bank robber could deduct the 2,000 Euros he paid for his pistol from the 6,600 Euros he has to return to the bank he robbed.
1202. The time spent deleting SPAM costs United States businesses $21.6 billion annually.
1203. 60.7 percent of eligible voters participated in the 2004 presidential election, the highest percentage in 36 years. However, more than 78 million did not vote. This means President Bush won re-election by receiving votes from less than 31% of all eligible voters in the United States.
1204. La Paz, Bolivia has an average annual temperature below 50 degrees Fahrenheit. However, it has never recorded a zero-degree temperature. Same for Stanley, Falkland Islands and Punta Arenas, Chile.
1205. A Wisconsin forklift operator for a Miller beer distributor was fired when a picture was published in a newspaper showing him drinking a Bud Light.
1206. G-rated family films earn far more money than any other rating. Yet only 3% of Hollywood's output is G-rated.
1207. More people study English in China than speak it in the United States of America (300 million).
1208. More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products that are made for right-handed people.
1209. For every person on earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects.
1210. There are 2,000,000 millionaires in the United States.
1211. 1.5 million Americans are charged with drunk driving each year.
1212. A Georgia company will mix your loved one's ashes with cement and drop it into the ocean to form an artificial reef.
1213. The Washington Times newspaper is owned by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
1214. The busiest shopping hour of the holiday season is between 3:00 pm and 4:00 pm on Christmas Eve.
1215. In 2002, women earned 742,000 bachelor's degrees. Men earned only 550,000 during the same year. The difference is growing so large that many colleges now practice (quietly) affirmative action for male applicants.
1216. Most of the deck chairs on the Queen Mary 2 have had to be replaced because overweight Americans were breaking them.
1217. The day after President George W. Bush was reelected, Canada's main immigration website had 115,000 visitors. Before Bush's re-election, this site averaged about 20,000 visitors each day.
1218. Only 30% of stolen artwork worth more than $1,000,000 each is recovered.
1219. The typical American child receives 70 new toys a year, most of them during the holiday season.
1220. 90% of Canada's 31,000,000 citizens live within 100 miles of the U.S. border.
1221. Costco is the largest wine retailer in the United States. Annual wine sales are about $700 million.
1222. The worst air polluter in the entire state of Washington is Mount St. Helens.
1223. There are less than 100 surviving American World War I veterans.
1224. A ten year old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new, because of the -ahem- debris which is absorbed through the years. That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and their decaying bodies), mold, millions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand and a lot of perspiration, of which the average person loses a quart per day. Good night!
1225. Billboard magazine has recently launched a top 20 chart of cell phone ringtones.
Carmen Naranjo: Do you know why we clink glasses before drinking?...It's so that all the five senses are involved. We touch the glass. We smell the drink. We see its color. We taste it. Hearing is the only sense that doesn't participate unless we create it.
The previous post's quote was from "Dogma"
Bartleby = Ben Affleck, Loki = Matt Damon
posted by Scott at 2:10 PM
2 Comments:
Should the government charge Mt. Saint Helens pollution tax for all the damage it's doing?
1224. I think this is my favourite fact for quite some time! =D
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