Random Facts of the Day

• You drive in a parkway and park in a driveway.
• You're more likely to die on your way to buy a lottery ticket than you are to actually win the lottery.
• When you put a seashell next to your ear, you're hearing the sound of your blood surging in your veins, not the ocean.
• When you eat celery, you burn more calories than you consume.

How to stay safe

Here are some general tips to help you stay safe in various places:

• Use drive-through ATMs when possible.
• Avoid wearing headphones while walking alone.
• Carry your purse in front of you, near your hips.
• Avoid keeping wallets in back pockets.
• Close the blinds before turning on lights at night. (Seems easy enough, but many people leave this simple task undone!)
• Lock your car doors as soon as you get into your car, do not delay.

Tips partially derived from The Best Years of Your Life

Random Facts of the Day

• There are more plastic flamingos in the USA than real flamingos.
• Items transported via ship is called cargo, while items transported via car is called shipments. 
• A blue whale's heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle!
• Months that start with a Sunday always has a Friday 13th.
• A toothbrush within 6 feet of a toilet can get airborne bacteria from flushing.

Random Facts of the Day - 1.06.12

• According to U.S. laws, a beer commercial can never show a person actually drinking beer.
• It was illegal to sell E.T. dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
• The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
• In Samoa, it is illegal to forget your wife’s birthday.
• In Finland, traffic fines are calculated as a percentage of the offender’s income.
• In Blythe, California, a person would have had to own at least two cows before he can be permitted to wear cowboy boots in public.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Here's to a bright New Year, here's to the things that are yet to come, and to the memories that we have!! 

2012

HAVE AN AWESOME YEAR!

Random Facts of the Day - 12.11.11

• Cherophobia is a fear of fun.
• Sometimes, octopuses eat their arms when they are under extreme stress.
• The average person spends 3 years of their life using the bathroom.
• The most shoplifted food item is cheese
• An owl has three eyelids!  

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Random Fact of the Day- 9.01.11

• The largest amount of children born to one woman is 69 children. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets. (WOW !!)
• A cat's urine glows under a black light.
• More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.
• Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
• Most likely, you could be killed by a cow attack than a shark attack.
  
  
   

Did you Know That? 8.24.11

What to do during an earthquake

• If you're in a car, find a clear spot away from buildings, trees, and power lines.
• Slow down and drive to a clear place 
• Do not stop on overpasses, underpasses, or bridges. Be careful of overhead hazards such as power lines or falling building debris.
• Turn off the ignition and set the parking brake.
• Stay inside the car until the shaking stops.
• If you're outside, drop to the ground until the shaking stops.
• If you have a pet, do not try to hold on to your pet during a quake.
• If you're indoors, stay close to an inside wall & do not use the elevators.
  Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/earthquakes/archive/quakedrill.dtl#ixzz1VxmqSjF5

Random Fact of the Day - 8.18.11

• It is unlawful to sit on the floor anywhere in the US Capitol building. It is considered to be protesting.
• The chicken is the closest living relative to the T-Rex.
• The Empire State Building was built using 10,000,000 bricks.
• Tigers not only have striped fur but they also have striped skin!
• China was the first country to use paper money.
• "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und".

Random Fact of the Day - 8.15.11

• Farmers in England are required by law to provide their pigs with toys!
• Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
• A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
• The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy!
• French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
• Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.

Really Random Facts of the Day

• Your tongue is the strongest muscle in your body.
• 1 in 5 people admitted to peeing in a swimming pool. Gross!
• A giraffe's tongue is 18 to 20 inches in length and bluish black in color.
• The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
• A cockroach can live a week with its head cut off. Without a mouth, it eventually dies from starvation or dehydration.
• You can marry a dead person in France.

Random Fact of the Day - 8.1.11

August is named after Augustus, the first emperor of the Roman Empire. Typically, the hottest days of the year occur in August.  The flowers for the month of August are the poppy and the gladiolus.

On August 1st:

• In America, the first cable streetcar  began running on Clay Street Hill in San Francisco, CA.
• The 38th state, Colorado, entered the United States on August 1st. It  entered the union 100 years after the Declaration of Independence was signed. Therefore, Colorado is called the "Centennial State".  
• MTV (Music Television) debuted at 12:01 a.m.

Random Fact of the Day - 7.27.11

• 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie
• Licking a stamp leads to the consumption of 1/10 of a calorie.
• It takes more than 500 years for a disposable diaper to decompose.
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
• The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural
• There is 15,140 dollars of Monopoly money in a regular Monopoly game.
  
  
  
  
  
  
   

Random Fact of the Day - 7.24.11

• Rain forests shrink about 1% annually.
• U.S. cars and trucks emit 314 metric tons of carbon dioxide every year
• Residential lawns and gardens are doused with 80 million pounds of chemical pesticides and 70 million tons of fertilizers annually.
• On average there are 27 oil spills every day somewhere in the waters of the worlds
• Each day, the United States produces 1.4 billion pounds of solid waste. That's around 58 million pounds an hour                                                                                    
• Read more: http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/blogs/save-money/environmental-statistics-460110#ixzz1T3c5Rzkv

Random Fact - 7.22.11

Lets talk about Twitter!


There are 200 million Twitter accounts


The famous Twitter hashtag was invented in August of 2007 by Chris Messina


Twitter makes about $200 million from advertising


The most followed celebrities as of today are: 

Lady Gaga - 11,819,642
Justin Bieber - 11,198,969
Britney Spears - 8,598,301
Kim Kardashian - 8,416,135
Ashton Kutcher - 7,214,039


Get to Tweeting!!!!