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981/ There are more then 2,700
languages spoken in the world.
982/ An espresso has less
caffeine than a cup of coffee.
983/ The highest bridge in
the world is in the Himalayas.
984/ More than 70% of the
Earth's dryland is affected by desertification.
985/ A baby elephant calf
can weigh up to 260 pounds when it is born.
986/ There may be as many
as 6 million diatoms, tiny floating plants, in a cubic foot
of seawater.
987/ The first commercial
radio station in the United States, KDKA Pittsburgh, began
broadcasting in November 1920.
988/ Three teaspoons make
a tablespoon. There are 48 teaspoons in a cup.
989/ There are about 3,000
hot dog vendors in Metropolitan New York.
990/ The average American
uses 12.4 gallons of water to take a shower, which lasts,
on the average, 10.4 minutes at an average temperature of
105 degrees Fahrenheit.
991/ A stack of £50
notes one mile high would be worth more than £700 million
pounds.
992/ According to a study
for the University of Tennessee's Noise Laboratory, 60 percent
of American college students suffer from some high-frequency
hearing loss. The main cause of this premature deafness is
noise. Hearing loss has long been linked to exposure to sustained
loud noises such as from rock concerts, loud music, jet aircraft,
food processors etc which destroys the ears tiny hair cells.
993/ In a survey conducted
by Opinion Research Corporation, 31 percent of those people
surveyed felt that having a maid, housekeeper, or gardener
would make their lives significantly less stressful. About
twenty percent said that having a less stressful job would
make life easier, and 3 percent of those surveyed said a personal
shopper would minimize their stress.
994/ An Animal Hospital Association
survey revealed that 62 percent of dog owners sign letter
or cards from themselves and their dogs.
995/ Early mattresses were
filled with straw and held up with a rope stretched across
the bed frame. If the rope was tight, sleep was comfortable.
Hence the phrase, "sleep tight".
996/ In 1875, the director
of the United States Patent Office sent in his resignation
and advised that his department be closed. There was nothing
left to invent, he claimed.
997/ In 1881, Proctor and
Gamble's Harley Proctor decided that adding the word "pure"
to his Ivory Soap would give its sales a necessary shot in
the arm. Analysis proved that Ivory was almost 100 percent
pure fatty acids and alkali, the stuff that most soap is made
of. Ivory's impurities were limited to 0.11 to 0.56 percent
uncombined alkali, 0.28 percent carbonates and 0.17 percent
mineral matter. Harley marked his soap "99 and 44/100
percent pure", deciding that using the exact number sounded
more credible than rounding up to 100 percent.
998/ The highest point in
Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
999/ Montreal is the largest
French-speaking city in the Western Hemisphere.
1000/ The Red Sea got its
name from the occasionally extensive blooms of algae that
, upon dying, turn the sea's normally intense blue-green waters
to red.
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