Interesting Facts

It staggers the mind.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Coca Cola was originally green.

Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury.

Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men. Women can also smell better than men.

Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33

Cost of raising a medium sized dog to the age of 11: $6,400.

The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years.

Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub.

Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.

A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars.

There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S., and only 144 miles of paved roads.

Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California.

With a mere 1.4 million people, California was only the 21st most populous state in the Union.

01. The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.

02. In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by death.

03. In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman’s genitals, but is forbidden from looking directly at them during the examination. He may only see their reflection in a mirror.

04. Muslims are banned from looking at the genitals of a corpse. This also applies to undertakers; the sex organs of the deceased must be covered with a brick or piece of wood at all times.

80.5 million
Estimated number of mothers of all ages in the United States.

65%
Percentage of women in Mississippi and Arkansas, ages 15 to 44, who are mothers. The national average is 55%.

81%
Percentage of women 40 to 44 years old who are mothers. In 1976, 90% of women in that age group were mothers.

2.0
Average number of children that women today can expect to have in their lifetime.

2.6
Average number of children that women in Utah can expect to have in their lifetime. This state tops the nation in average number of births per woman. Maine, Massachusetts, and Vermont have the lowest average number—1.7 births.

This photo of what looks like a bunch of long-haired hippies has been circulating through email accompanied by the caption “Microsoft, 1978: Would you have invested?”

Is the photo real? Is this really what the management of Microsoft looked like in 1978? Yes, on both counts.

The photo was taken December 7, 1978 in Albuquerque, New Mexico before the company moved its offices to Washington. The people in the photo are (from left to right, starting at the top) Steve Wood, Bob Wallace, Jim Lane, Bob O’ Rear, Bob Greenberg, Marc McDonald, Gordon Letwin, Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, and Paul Allen.

1. It takes about 48 hours for your body to completely digest the food from one meal.

2. It’s against the law in Willowdale, Oregon, for a husband to curse during sex.

3. Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle.

4. In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day.

5. It’s illegal in Newcastle, WY to have sex in a butcher shop’s meat freezer.

6. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.

7. Jaguars are frightened by dogs.

8. Holland has the densest population per square mile of any nation in the world.

Wikipedia has list of all of the big April Fools pranks that have happened around the Internet, on TV, on radio and in the newspapers and magazines. The list is growing fast, enjoy the hilarity.

Check out the April Fools Jokes in 2006 here.

Since 1927, TIME Magazine has chosen a man, woman, or idea that "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year." Though TIME's list is not an academic or objective study of the past, the list gives a contemporary viewpoint of what was important during each year. There are many interesting facts about the list:

* Charles Lindbergh (1927) was the first, and the youngest, person to receive the distinction. He was 25 years old.

* Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, the woman whom English King Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry, was the first woman to receive the honor - 1936.

These figures are circulating on the internet and on usenets. I can’t vouch for their scientific approach and method. I don’t even know who conducted this survey and when. This survey doesn’t address the diseases or hurt caused from promiscuous sex. Nevertheless, the figures are worth sharing.

Latino women have sex more often than either Blacks or Whites, who get down at roughly the same rate.

Women with a Ph.D. are twice as likely to be turned on by the thought of anonymous sex as women who never got a bachelor’s degree.

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The political instability in the Caucasus region is among the most severe in Russia, and travelers are advised to avoid North Ossetia, Ingushetia, Dagestan, Stavropol, Karachayevo-Cherkessiya and Kabardino-Balkariya as well as Chechnya itself, where open guerrilla warfare still rages in an environment of lawlessness. Kidnappings for ransom, of Americans and other foreigners, are common, as are terrorist attacks or bombings at hotels, government buildings, markets and schools, including the raid in September 2004 at a school in Beslan, which ended in the deaths of many children and other civilians.