Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Todays Facts

• Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th"
• Your foot is as long as your forearm, from your wrist to your elbow
• Your eyes dilate when you look at something you like
• Your waist size is double your neck size (so if you want to try a pair of pants on, see if the waist band goes completely around your neck, if it doesn't then it definitely won't fit you.)
• A good link for legit free movies is filmmetro.com
• Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
• The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
• Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
• Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
• Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades-King David; Clubs-Alexander the Great; Hearts-Charlemagne; and Diamonds-Julius Caesar.
• It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
• The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA,NHL, or NFL), are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
• All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
• James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
• The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

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