Hundred-Fold Harvest…

- Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars
- When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year
- If you’re an average American, you’ll spend about 6 months of your life waiting at red lights
- U.S. hens lay enough eggs in a year to circle the equator 100 times
- In an 1990 preschool poll, Mr. Rogers was first choice for president of the United States
- Most raindrops are round or doughnut shaped, not “raindrop shaped”
- Check a map: Reno, Nevada is West of Los Angeles, California
- There’s a “Cinderella” story in Finnish folklore. But the girl’s name isn’t Cinderella. It’s Tuna.
- A bowl of Wheaties contains twice as much sodium as a bowl of potato chips
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients used to make dynamite
- Five cows were killed by drive-by shootings in Clay County, Missouri in 1992
- Humans are the only beings to cry tears
- No kidding – the cigarette lighter was invented before the match
- Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate
- Weight-loss tip: Melting an ice cube in your mouth burns about 2.3 calories
- There’s a town in Texas called “Ding Dong”
- Ancient Roman banquet halls had “vomitoriums,” so people could keep eating even when full
- Cab fare from New York to LA (not including tip): $8,325.
- What are eructations, stenuations and pandiculations? Burps, sneezes and yawns, in that order
- The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the US
- Most hummingbirds weigh less than a penny
- Liechtenstein, the world’s smallest country, is also the world’s largest manufacturer of false teeth
- It takes about 3 1/2 hours for sound waves to travel from San Francisco to New York
- It takes about 4 hours to hard boil an ostrich egg
- A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds
- 70% of the world’s oxygen supply is produced by marine plants
- The New York phone book had 22 Hitlers listed before WWII…and none after
- Study results: Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV
- Arachibutyrophobia: The fear of having peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth
- The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers
- The dolphins that live in the Amazon River are pink
- NASA invented the “Dust-Buster”
- In 1992, 2,421 people checked into U.S. emergency rooms with injuries involving house plants
- In 1992, 5,840 people checked into U.S. emergency rooms with “pillow-related” injuries
- The U.S. Census calls a place with 2,500 people a town. If it has 2,501 or more, it’s a city
- If aircraft carriers ran on gasoline, they’d get about 6 inches to the gallon
- A mouse’s heart is smaller than an M&M.
- The alphabet, arranged by frequency of use: ETAISONHRDLUCMFWYPGVBKJQXZ.
- You cannot reach any part of Mexico by traveling due north from any part of South America.
- Both poison oak and poison ivy are members of the cashew family.