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Worldwide we created more information in the last 3 years
than in all of previous recorded history.
2682/ A Business Objects
Survey in 1998 found that 88% of managers use gut-feelings
over hard-facts up to 75% of the time in making business decisions.
2683/ The Mount Horeb
Mustard Museum which is located in Wisconsin has the biggest
collection of prepared mustards. They have approximately 4,000
different jars and tubes from all over the world.
2684/ Studies indicate
that weightlifters working out in blue gyms can handle heavier
weights.
2685/ At 120 miles per
hour, a Formula One car generates so much downforce that it
can drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel.
2686/ In Canada, men
are three times more likely than women to have seen a doctor
in the last year.
2687/ Honorificabilitudinitatibus.
This is a nonsense word from medieval Latin and means "with
honourableness". It is the longest word which appears
in Shakespeare's writings and comes from Love's Labour's Lost
and is also the longest English word that consists strictly
of alternating consonants and vowels.
2688/ The Olympic Flame
was introduced in 1928 in Amsterdam.
2689/ Shortly after delivering
the first atomic weapons to Allied forces in the Pacific during
WW II the U.S.S. Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine.
However most of the crew was not killed by the sinking, but
by sharks.
2690/ About ten million
bacteria live in one gram of soil.
2691/ Due to eating habits
in the USA, one in three children born in the year 2000 have
a chance of getting diabetes.
2692/ To make one glass
of orange juice, 50 glasses of water are needed to grow enough
oranges to make the juice.
2693/ The material to
build the Taj Mahal was brought in from various parts of India
by a fleet of 1,000 elephants.
2694/ Ten radishes contain
only eight calories.
2695/ Alexandre Gustave
Eiffel, the man who designed the Eiffel Tower, also designed
the inner structure of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour.
2696/ The steepest street
in the world is Baldwin Street located in Dunedin, New Zealand.
It has an incline of 38%.
2697/ A "hairsbreadth
away" is 1/48 of an inch.
2698/ There was a false
floor fitted in Adolf Hitler's Mercedes 770K to make him look
taller when he stood up in the car.
2699/ In Kingsville,
Texas, it is against the law for two pigs to have sex on the
city's airport property.
2700/ A human head remains
conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is has been
decapitated.
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