Fact-A-Day from Harry K. Harry K. Jones on 19 Dec 2006 12:31 pm
Fact-A-Day from Harry K. - December 19, 2006
In the spirit of C.A.N.I. (Continuous And Never-ending Improvement), here are this week’s new facts—one for each day of your coming week. Pass them on to others to keep the spirit alive or invite your friends and family to visit our blog where they can also view previous entries.
- A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- There are more television sets in the United States than there are people in Japan.
- Nearly one-fourth of the world’s population lives on less than $200 a year. More than ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
- Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than most new cars.
- Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by lightning.
- New York City has the most skyscrapers of any city in the world with 140. Chicago is a distant second at 68. The term “skyscraper” technically describes all habitable buildings with a height of more than 500 ft. (50 stories).
- On a bingo card of ninety numbers, there are approximately 44 million ways to make B-I-N-G-O.
DECEMBER HOLIDAY BONUS
- An estimated 25 to 30 million live Christmas trees are sold every holiday season in the U.S.
- Christmas trees usually take 6 to 8 years to fully mature.
- Franklin Pierce was the first U.S. President to have a decorated tree in the White House.
- The first commercial Christmas tree lot in the U.S. was set up in New York City in 1851.
- Grover Cleveland was the first President to use electric lights on the White House Christmas tree.
- In the first week after being cut, a Christmas tree will consume as much as a quart of water every day.
- Greenland has to import all of its Christmas trees.
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on 12 Jan 2007 at 1:16 pm 1.SUSAN_DJ said …
On Poverty: I recently read a book call “Nickel and Dimed / On (Not) Getting By in America” by Barbara Ehrenreich. The author herself, accepted a challenge to find out how those millions of people in America actually live on less than $8 an hour. She found low-paying jobs, located low-income housing and lived the life for a period of time in 3 different areas of the country. Her book recounts her experiences and struggles.
Susan Jacobs