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881/ Each year, 9 million
tons of salt, more than 10 percent of all the salt produced
in the world, is applied to American highways for road de-icing.
The cost of buying and applying the salt adds up to $200 million.
882/ Each seed of the palm
tree Lodoicea Seychellarum weighs 30 pounds.
883/ Eighty percent of the
world's rose species come from Asia.
884/ Lightning puts 10 million
tons of nitrogen into the Earths atmosphere each year.
885/ Any free moving liquid
in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of
its surface tension.
886/ Ketchup is excellent
for cleaning brass.
887/ Strawberries have more
vitamin c in them then oranges.
888/ Nutmeg is extremely poisonous
if injected intravenously.
889/ Dead Egyptian noblewomen
were given the special treatment of being allowed a few days
to ripen, so that embalmers wouldn't find them too attractive.
890/ Babies are born without
knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to
6 years of age.
891/ When you sneeze all of
your body functions stop, even your heart.
892/ Bamboo is not a tree.
It is a wood grass.
893/ Americans spend more
money on dog food each year then they do on baby food.
894/ About seven percent of
adolescents under 18 may be addicted to gambling, studies
show.
895/ Although the United States
has only 5% of the worlds population, it has most of the world's
lawyers at 70%. The American Bar Association estimates that
there already over a million lawyers in the US.
896/ Airport security personnel
find about six weapons a day searching passengers.
897/ The coffee break in the
workplace did not become common until the early 1940s.
898/ Root Beer was invented
in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1898 by Edward Adolf Barq Sr.
899/ Russian submarine designers
are building military submarines out of concrete. Because
concrete becomes stronger under high pressure, 'C-Subs' could
settle down to the bottom in very deep water and wait for
enemy ships to pass overhead. Concrete would not show up on
sonar displays (it looks just like sand or rocks), so the
passing ships would not see the sub lurking below.
900/ In 1889, the first coin-operated
telephone, patented by Hartford, Connecticut inventor William
Gray, was installed in the Hartford Bank. Soon, 'pay phones'
were installed in stores, hotels, saloons and restaurants,
and their use soared. Local calls using a coin operated phone
cost only 5 cents everywhere in the US until 1951.
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