03 Feb 08 10 Things You Might Not Have Known
- Twenty words make up a third of the average teenagers’ daily vocabulary.
- The lion costume in the Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
- Online shoppers will only wait an average of four seconds for a page to load up.
- In the US, more than one in eight people show signs of Internet addiction.
- More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors
- Just one cow gives off enough methane in one day to fill around 850 pint jugs
- Eating a packet of chips each day is equivalent to drinking 12 pints of cooking oil a year.
- In a fight between a polar bear and a lion, the polar bear would win.
- In the 1960′s the CIA used to watch Mission Impossible to get ideas about spying.
- In Brazil there are around two million cars that run on alcohol. It gives a new meaning to drinking and driving.
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