Fact-A-Day from Harry K. Harry K. Jones on 23 Sep 2008 10:00 am
Fact-A-Day from Harry K. - September 23, 2008
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.
- Americans generate an extra five million tons of trash between Thanksgiving and New Year’s.
- Americans spend about $430 billion a year trying to lose weight.
- Americans today eat 17.3 billion quarts of popcorn a year. The average American eats about 68 quarts.
- An average chicken-plucking machine can pluck a whole chicken in 14 seconds.
- An average lawn has six grass plants per square inch. That’s 850 per square foot—which can contain as many as 3,000 individual blades of grass.
- A single bale of cotton will yield 215 pairs of jeans.
- A recent survey revealed that 80% of Super Bowl viewers watch just for the commercials.
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