Surprising Facts

These facts are from my biology professor.

20% of the worlds people who live in highest income countries consume 86% of worlds resources.

Four quarts of oil can cause an eight-acre oil slick.


And these are the most surprising ones:

If everyone in the US recycled just 1/10 of their newsprint, we would save the estimated equivalent of 25 million trees a year.

Americans throw away 25 MILLION plastic beverage bottles EVERY HOUR, even though recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator.

Americans throw out enough paper each year to build a 12-foot high wall from New York City to L.A.

Did You Know?

Random "Real Facts"

These are all from Snapple.com:


A bee has 5 eyelids.

An electric eel can release a charge powerful enough to start 50 cars.

There is a town called Big Ugly, West Virginia.

It took Leonardo da Vinci 12 years to paint the lips of Mona Lisa.

Borborygmi is the noise that your stomach makes when you are hungry.

Slugs have 4 noses.

In a year, the average person walks four miles making his or her bed.

Mongolians invented lemonade around 1299 A.D.

Caller ID is illegal in California.

A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion mathematical calculations.

The first human-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip.

The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.

Seals sleep only one and a half minutes at a time.

Napoleon suffered from a fear of cats.

The blue whale's heart is the size of a small car.

If you drive from Los Angeles to Reno, NV, you will be heading west.



The only one I have a problem with is the last one. You will not be heading west, you will be heading north-northwest. Check out the map. If you head directly west from LA, you will drive into the ocean.